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Lessons from a Gnutella-web gateway

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Brian D. Davison,

Wei Zhang,

Baoning WuAuthors Info & Claims

WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

Pages 502 - 503

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013367.1013546

Published: 19 May 2004 Publication History

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We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work improvesthe accessibility of files across different delivery platforms, making it possible to use a single search modality. We outline our design and implementation, present access statistics from a test deployment and discuss lessons learned.

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G. Kan. Gnutella. In A. Oram, editor, Peer to Peer: Harnessing the Benefits of Disruptive Technologies, chapter 8, pages 94--122. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, Mar. 2001.

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K. C. Sia, C. H. Ng, C. H. Chan, S. K. Chan, and L. Y. Ho. Bridging the P2P and WWWdivide with DISCOVIR -- DIStributed COntent-based Visual Information Retrieval. In Poster Proc. of the 12th WWW Conf., Budapest, May 2003.

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Lessons from a Gnutella-web gateway
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Search engine architectures and scalability
      1. Distributed retrieval
      2. Peer-to-peer retrieval
  2. Information storage systems
    1. Storage architectures
      1. Distributed storage

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WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

May 2004

532 pages

ISBN:1581139128

DOI:10.1145/1013367

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Stuart Feldman
IBM Research
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Mike Uretsky
New York University
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Marc Najork
Microsoft Research
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Craig Wills
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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