The Open GRiD Project
Why should I
read this?
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A new architecture for Internet searching, categorization, and ranking
is being implemented: it is to be contributed to, maintained, and controlled
collectively and consistently by all the people
who surf and create the Web pages.
need this
new thing?
Potential global implications of implementing the architecture seem to be surprisingly substantial for many areas other than just Internet searching.
What are those
implications?
The basic idea is to capture opinions of very many people about each Web page in order to find out their weighted collective opinion about the page; and then use that opinion as the main part of page description (together with its title, keywords, text, etc.) when making a Web search. That is, we will build a collaborative information filtering, classification, and ranking system.
What exactly
is proposed?
Intuitively, the proposed method gives everyone the ability to easily express his/her opinion about anything; and to easily find out the collective expressed opinions of all the other people on the Web about anything.
What are the
main benefits?
Also the proposed idea can be viewed as a neat way to easily use everywhere on the Internet the benefits of peer review and peer recognition (which are widely adopted e.g. in science and in Linux/free (open source) software developers community).
Tell me more
about this!
Technically the idea develops on the methods used by the Google search engine (it can also be seen as the next step after the Open Directory). But the proposed extensions should allow for making much more flexible searches and for getting much more accurate search results and categorizations comparing to the current search engines and directories (including Google and the Open Directory).
Tell me more
about this!
The implementation of the Open GRiD project has been started, but some collective efforts of many different people (both developers and opinion content creators), that is, your efforts, Dear Reader, are required.
What
can I do?
