Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records
Yup. Calling it. This is the future, may not seem like it to everyone but this is a part of actually new and extremely useful, passively scalable technology. Imagine (good) unkillable zombie databases- so long as the name of a piece of data is known (its hash)..  someone, somewhere, might make it possible for you to answer your query, without even needing to setup a server setup.. that’s _it_! Not to mention it might be faster than the original source.<p>Pretty damn powerful. The next level above this is a search index that lets the <i>user</i> generate their <i>own</i> results, using their own machine learning algorithm or ranking weights of their own preferences, bc they would have <i>direct</i> access to the DB index and features. People could wrote anti-ad plugins. There could be foss upgrades all the time. Nobody would have to spend a particularly crazy amount of money on storage if they could all just cache the bits they’d needed themselves. Quite remarkable imo!! Whatever ends Google search’s reign, will probably be user-owned in a way that seems a lot like this..