Wired: Building a Bigger Search Engine

“Web-search company LookSmart has ambitious plans to do for Web
searching what SETI@Home did for the hunt for E.T.

“Last week, LookSmart released a screensaver that harnesses the
spare computing power of volunteers whose machines are indexing the
Web.

“Like Seti@Home, LookSmart’s Grub screensaver runs in the
background or when the computer is idle. But instead of searching
for signs of intelligent aliens, [open-source] Grub crawls the Net
to build an index for Web searches…”

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