[p2p-research] Subject for your blog

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks a lot Sepp, and Tom!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
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> I looked at the site and liked it.
>
> put a short mention of it on the p2p ning group site here, using an
> explanation that is on the site and keeps coming up each time I change
> pages:
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> http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/student-codes-google-for
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> Kind regards
> Sepp
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>  On 12/gen/10, at 07:48, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> 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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