- From: Arie Y LEVY COHEN <arielevycohen@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:51:41 -0500
- To: Stefan Thomas <stefan@ripple.com>
- Cc: public-interledger@w3.org
Received on Tuesday, 24 November 2015 09:52:12 UTC
+2 -- CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY | IDENTITY | LEGAL & COMPLIANCE ARIE Y. LEVY-COHEN BLOCKCHAIN ADVISOR | SPEAKER | W3C i-EXPERT ECONOMICS | FINANCE | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECH P: 917.692.6999 > On Nov 23, 2015, at 10:24 PM, Stefan Thomas <stefan@ripple.com> wrote: > > +1 Great point! > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Xavier Vas <xavier@tr80.com> wrote: >> >>> - It's an open question whether centralized path finding is more >>> competitive (think Google Search) or decentralized path finding (think >>> distributed routing). Obviously we'd like to see distributed >>> pathfinding, but ultimately it's just an empirical question of which >>> will work better and which one people will choose. >> >> I'd like to claim that Google Search or rather Google-type search is in fact decentralized. Personally I switch between Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing for various reasons. It's a kind of manual decentralization because I have to manually bring up the page and enter the search term. >> >> If Google had a true monopoly the WWW would look very different economically and content wise ... more like the AOLs and CompuServes of the olden days I think. We don't want to go there. >> >> Xav >
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