Towards a fully distributed P2P Web search engine

Most centralized Web search engines currently find it harder to catch up with the growth in information needs. 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) a query-based representation to obtain a more humanized description of documents; and (c) a semantic routing algorithm to obtain user-customized results.