With search being so important, some are afraid that the big companies get too much power into their hands with their search engines. In essence they could control what a surfer sees, which can get a little scary. So some people started Nutch, which is supposed to become an open source search engine. I wonder if it will work, partly because of the high costs associated with a popular search engine (thousands of servers, huge amounts of bandwidth, …) and party because I am still not convinced that open source really works. Yes it worked in some systems but that doesn’t mean it will work in others.
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