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papersmith on Sept 5, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard

A peer-to-peer search engine sounds good. The difficult part is convincing users to donate the resources for your cause.

euccastro on Sept 6, 2007 | [–]

How do Skype and bittorrent achieve that?

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