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The last decade has been particularly interesting in the world of Technology. We have seen Java become mainstream, we saw Google come of age, Linux became mainstream server OS and the Open Source movement took off. This article is not about technology but rather the resource sharing peer-to-peer technology which have impacted the way technology has evolved.

“The Social Side of Search”, a Micro-Unconference initiated by FAROO, took place on April, 25 in the Oracle Booth at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The day before we presented FAROO at the Birds of a Feather (BoF) Session ”People Powered Search”: People powered search: Social Networks are

The first “Alternative Search Engines Day” took place on April, 21  at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. The conference was hosted by Charles Knight of AltSearchEngines the day before the Web 2.0 Expo.

Original post: The Top 142 Alternative Search Engines? Not!

The first company I met today was Faroo. They are from Germany and Gosia Garbe, the CEO, gave me a quick update on their progress. Garbe started development on Faroo more than 6 years ago and launched during Techcrunch40 here in San Francisco about a year ago. They are based in Germany.

  Faroo  (our review) the Peer to peer search engine is now out of private beta and enters the second stage of public beta. Now anyone can go and download the Faroo Client and contribute in building a better search engine. I love the concept of Faroo and I believe that it’s one of the idea which can actually make some changes in the search engine war.

  Faroo  (our review) the Peer to peer search engine is now out of private beta and enters the second stage of public beta. Now anyone can go and download the Faroo Client and contribute in building a better search engine. I love the concept of Faroo and I believe that it’s one of the idea which can actually make some changes in the search engine war.

FAROO is a web search engine based on peer-to-peer technology. Every web page visited is automatically included in the distributed index. It implements an user generated, attention based ranking. (more...) This post is from Deepak Gupta's - D' Technology Weblog FAROO 2.0.2977.30546 Beta: Web