Abstract | MINERVA1 is a novel approach towards P2P Web search
that connects an a-priori unlimited number of peers, each of which maintains
a personal local database and a local search facility. Each peer posts
a small amount of metadata to a physically distributed directory layered
on top of a DHT-based overlay network that is used to efficiently select
promising peers from across the peer population that can best locally execute
a query. This paper proposes a live demonstration of MINERVA,
showcasing the full information lifecycle: crawling web pages, disseminating
metadata to a distributed directory, and executing queries online. We
additionally invite all visitors to instantly join the network by executing
a small piece of software. |