Posted on 04/20/2003 8:35:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:09:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Web-search company LookSmart has ambitious plans to do for Web searching what SETI@Home did for the hunt for E.T.
Last week, LookSmart released a screensaver that harnesses the spare computing power of volunteers whose machines are indexing the Web.
Like SETI@Home, LookSmart's Grub screensaver runs in the background or when the computer is idle. But instead of searching for signs of intelligent aliens, Grub crawls the Net to build an index for Web searches.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
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