[Search-l] putting my hand up

[Aerik Sylvan]

On 5/8/07, jer <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:
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>
> Does anyone know the folks at Eurekster?  A really good faith step,
> outside of any patents, would be for them to openly license all of
> the user contributed data back to the users / community and make it
> available in some format.  It feels like something that any site
> built on user contributions should be doing or at least allowing the
> option for users to do.  Just my 2c :)
>
>
I think that's the exciting thing about the protocol you're talking about -
if there's a possiblity of aggregating different types/sources of
user-contributed data.  I think there will be resistance and questions about
about the sharing of data with a for-profit entity though... if you have
multiple for-profit entities, competing at least to some degree for the same
eyeballs... well, there are bound to be questions.

However, I'd be happy to link the data (~ 25k and growing website
descriptions, GFDL licensed) from my wiki based dmoz style directory to the
project.  :-)

Best Regards,
Aerik
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