Replacing corporate search engines with anonymous/decentralized search

[rysiek]

Dnia środa, 1 stycznia 2014 22:38:32 Juha Nurmi pisze:
> Hi!
> 
> I read this post about decentralized search and I immediately
> subscribed this mailing list. So hello all! My name is Juha Nurmi and
> I am the founder of ahmia.fi (search engine for Tor) and a university
> researcher.
> 
> Right now I am trying to get funding to design a decentralized search
> engine. We are proposing (me and my Adj.Prof.) a small (2-3 years)
> Finnish Academy project.
> 
> This proposal would take place in the Finnish Academy ICT 2023
> programme, first thematic call: Information security, letters of
> intent, which means very short project plans. Academy mostly funds
> (public) "pure research"; first planned applications are related to
> virtual Internet networks and public admin applications.
> 
> The basic idea is to investigate search algorithms and engines that do
> not require a centralized crawler database and a central authority.
> This raises algorithmic, security, credibility, resourcification, etc.
> challenges that are interesting strategic research point of view, etc.
> 
> In particular, we would like to use Tor network as a testbed for these
> ideas in the related case studies: we will be testing this search
> design by building a tor hidden service search engine :)
> 
> The Finnish Academy will select most promising project candidates and
> the final proposal is to be submitted around April 2014.
> 
> If successful, we enter detailed planning phase in early 2014, and
> submit more complete project plan by April 2014. Actual project (2
> calendar years) would take place in 2014-2016.
> 
> I really really hope I will get this funding. This is something I
> would love to do and have planned to do a long time. Funding = time.

This sounds great. Please keep us in the loop on this. :)

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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