[p2p-research] Subject for your blog

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks for the info,

I'm forwarding this to a friend and co-blogger who follows torrents more
closely, and he may well want to write about it,

don't hesitate to communicate with tom about your project,

Michel

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Albrecht Pablo
<albrecht.pablo1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi there.
> I'm contacting you to present you my site, it's not a common one, I've been
> working months and months on it's algorithm so I though you might be
> interested to talk about.
> I'm a jung students and when I had to do a project, I've created an
> algorithm to index web pages like the Google's one. It first was very basic,
> just grabbing pages, indexing them and searching through, with the number of
> occurrence of the keywords as the only sorting method. A few months later, I
> had finished a more complex algorithm, with a sort of PageRank and so. But
> after all, it still wasn't as good as google.
> So I had the idea to use this "technology" for projects and maybe building
> a company on it. And that's what I've started with TorrentFactory.org.
>
> Instead of searching through the entire database, I'm splitting the content
> to get only torrent files and save those which have enough informations (at
> least a title).
> It's a kind of specialization, but I 'm preparing the future with other
> websites related to the internet content, it's the base for my work.
>
> Moreover, I have 6 servers at home running to download and split the
> content and two web servers, if I would have tried to serve search results,
> I would have need a lot of other servers and probably wouldn't get any real
> visitors so that's why I decided to specialize my first services in a way.
>
> By the way, I'm not making any money with that project, it's free and
> ad-free, because a company (DediServ.eu) believe in the project and are
> sponsoring it, so they lend me free servers to run the sites, although the
> biggest part is still done at my home.
>
> I've spent exactly 1025 hours on that project ( I know the exact time
> because we did a party 2 days back for the 1 000 hour reach ), and the basic
> search engine takes almost 1 000 000 of lines of codes.
>
> I seriously don't know if you're interested by talking about that, but one
> of the teacher I'm working with told me that the next step for me is to find
> bloggers and journalists that would be interested by writing about it. So I
> would really appreciate of you could write about it on a small post or where
> ever you feel it's a good place, if this topic is interesting.
> In the same directions, if you're more interested by all that, I can
> answers any questions or give proofs (I have a few friends who didn't
> believe me first).
>
> Best regards,
> Pablo ALBRECHT - TorrentFactory.org




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