Tag: FAROO

When we first told you about peer-to-peer search engine Faroo last week we promised to reserve judgment until we had some time to play with it. Now that we have, we have to say we're about as unimpressed as we expected to be. The idea behind Faroo is interesting. The site indexes the web without maintaining a centralized database. Rather, users install a client on their PCs (Windows 2000 and up), ...

If we've learned anything from Wikipedia and Mahalo, it's that the search engine wars aren't quite over yet. While neither site is a traditional search engine in the vein of Google, Yahoo!, or Ask, they've shown there is more than one day to index information online. Faroo, on the other hand is developing a product that looks a lot like a typical search engine. Under the hood though, it's quite ...