From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:24:04 +0900 Message-ID: <21657.38692.813089.642641@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fvc8kdsp.fsf@gnu.org> <6e11cd85-09a0-4b7a-baa2-0c810bdebbce@default> <871tnsg0w7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834msoqrsg.fsf@gnu.org> <87k31ki3tc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419351889 22767 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 16:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Lennart Borgman , adatgyujto@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 17:24:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3SGH-0000vn-5m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3SGG-0003bZ-GP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3SG0-0003DI-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:24:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3SFs-0004CC-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:44833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3SFk-0004Ah-JT; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 127401C38B1; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:24:05 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DF20F1A2CFC; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:24:04 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180575 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I'd rather do this sort of deal with duckduckgo, if we are to do it. > But using a search engine requires a network connectin. > > I have a feeling that we can avoid the need, because the sort of > synonym table we need is probably not so big after all. The problem is not the size of the table, it's aggregating user queries into priorities for indexing. This is the bread and butter of search engines, while being hard to implement with decentralized, and especially disconnected, users.