Coopeer: a peer-to-peer Web search engine towards collaboration, humanization and personalization

Most centralized Web search engines currently become harder to catch up with the growing step of people´s information need. Here, we present a fully distributed, collaborative peer-to-peer Web search engine named Coopeer. The goal of the work is to complement centralized search engines to provide more humanized and personalized results by utilizing users´ collaboration. Towards this goal, three main ideas are introduced: (a) PeerRank to use cooperation among users for evaluation, (b) query-based representation to obtain more humanized description about documents, and (c) semantic routing algorithm to obtain user-customized results.