Google gives into the DMCA?

[ksandre]

Fred wrote:

<snipped>

> 
> In the meantime, some serious thought needs to be given to doing to
> search engines what has been done for file-sharing. How to query
> thousands if not millions of little search engines all over the globe to
> retrieve content, rather than relying on one huge centralised facility
> such as Google.
> 
> Lets use the technology and our own collective genius to stay ahead  of
> those that would use superannuated approaches such as the law and
> politics to thwart us. The more they push, the faster we'll think and
> implement.


/me nods appreciatively.


I queried the Indymedia techies on this concept to see what if 
anything might be considered by IMCs.  I was told that 
free/opensource search engines using many PCs exist already (I 
have not yet searched, though I am looking at GNU/FSF) as well as 
some discussion specific to Indymedia.  So far, this is what was 
found at the IMC documentation site (with some links therein):

[from IMC Oceana]

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/CommonAPI


I need to listen again to that rms BSF talk to see if that issue 
was included.  If not, maybe when the Q&A portion gets posted to 
imc-boston it will be.