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The recent controversy about Google limiting search results to people in China has highlighted that search engines are very influential, and subject to political and commercial pressures. They also mean that everyone has to go through a single point, which is vulnerable to attack or system failure.
This blog entry suggests how a search engine could be distributed across many machines. Each user