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Title:
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NEED FOR PROTOCOLS AND STANDARDS FOR A DECENTRALIZED WEB SEARCH PARADIGM |
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Author(s):
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Sergio R. Coria |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-25-0 |
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Editors:
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Bebo White, Pedro Isaías and Diana Andone |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Web search, web crawling, web indexing, protocols, standards. |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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373 |
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Last Page:
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376 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper proposes to create a new paradigm on services for information search on the web, involving new protocols and standards. For more than one decade, the current paradigm has consisted in services that have been provided by a small number of private companies on an advertising business scheme, mainly. This concentration involves a number of risks and disadvantages to WWW users. One of the risks is the service vulnerability because of the large dependence on the infrastructure of one or two providers. Scalability might become into a concern because of the huge increasing of information on the WWW. The current paradigm also involves economical and political disadvantages because the providers decide which websites are allowed to be listed or not as well as their rankings; this can bias the search results. Therefore, this paper aims to suggest general lines for research and development for a new, global, non-for-profit, paradigm for crawling, indexing and searching information on the WWW. |
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