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AnyBT: A BitTorrent Search Engine Works on ENS and IPFS

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Is this meant to be decentralized to avoid shutdown? Where is the engine itself hosted? Ens is just a naming system and ipfs is just a file address system right? So the engine itself still needs to be hosted somewhere? Would like to hear more about it, but no info available on the site.

Actually the engine itself is also decentralized, there are multiple nodes running the search index over the network. There will be more docs coming out.

How is it decentralized? Are you using Filecoin VM? Doing your own thing?

The index files are stored on Filecoin, and there are multiple nodes loading those index files and serving queries.

Multiple nodes that you run? What's the incentive for others to run them?

That’s the very goal of IPFS: hosting is distributed. Every node taking part in the IPFS network may or may not have pieces of this particular website.

Eth.link seems to be a centralized proxy enabling you to access that without an IPFS/EthDNS browser.

It should also be noted that what is hosted is a simple list of hashes with a name (and a size). The search engine is trivially looking through the name and displaying matching hashes.

Then, your bittorrent client try to find any torrent matching the hash (this is the magnet protocol).

So, yeah, you download something from nowhere. This is the real "cloud" we have been expecting for the last 20 years ;-)

IPFS only serves files, there is no server side compute. You can’t just scan ipfs like a database so there needs to be some other tech used for the engine itself, as OP indicates.

yeah, indeed, my bad.

Adding a tracking parameter to the link is very uncool

Tracking saying this came from hn is not uncool it's slightly cool. It's a way to say all of these people are from that cool site hackernews. Uncool is browser fingerprinting, tracking mouse movements and forcing signups through gmail. uncool.

Sorry for that, first time ever post on Hacker News. Didn't know this, and I can't edit the link after I posted.

No worries. Cool project by the way!

uncool would be blindly objecting something without even understanding why you do it.

What's uncool about the creator knowing which social media outlet worked the best for their "advertising"? It doesn't hurt you.

Maybe it's marketed as ENS and IPFS, but in the end it's an .ru domain running SQL. What's old is new again!

    curl 'https://gateway.magnode.ru/blockved/glitterchain/index/sql/simple_query' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw @- <<"JSON"
    {
      "sql": "select /*+ SET_VAR(full_text_option='{\"highlight\":{ \"style\":\"html\",\"fields\":[\"file_name\"]}}') */ file_name,filesize,total_count,_id,category,firstadd_utc_timestamp,_score from library.dht where query_string('file_name:\\\"debian\\\"^1') order by total_count desc limit 0, 200",
      "arguments": []
    }
    JSON

--data-raw is incorrect, as it does not parse the "@-", it takes it as a literal value. You want --data @- ...

Where's the code?

Qbit search works fine, why would I choose a rewrite?

no files inside listed unlike btdig

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