Decentralized communications may work, but decentralized internet search is probably always going to be impractical.
The actual logic involved in search is itself pretty simple and almost trivial to shard, the problem is dealing with a mutable dataset that is of the order of a hundred terabytes.
Search gets enormous benefits from data locality, such that distributed approaches are all significantly more expensive.
The actual logic involved in search is itself pretty simple and almost trivial to shard, the problem is dealing with a mutable dataset that is of the order of a hundred terabytes.
Search gets enormous benefits from data locality, such that distributed approaches are all significantly more expensive.