At 11:40 PM 10/9/01 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Google thus serves as an honesty mechanism, holding people responsible for what they have said and making it more difficult for them to conceal revisions to their published opinions.
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It's unfortunate that we have to rely on Google. Imagine an ongoing, distributed project to cache the web. Volunteers could keep tabs on a subset of corporate and personal web pages and cache old versions when changes are made. Rewriting history becomes that much harder. And it's certainly a better use of computers than seti@home.
Very nice analysis. If you greatly reduce Google's speed of search, what kind of compression-gains can you get? Imagine an archive which is highly compressed [1] but used mostly to counter censorship. [1] That JPGs etc. are already highly compressed means that if you keep pictures, you won't gain as much by trading off search speed for compression.