BRight: A Distributed System for Web lnformation lndexing and Searching

Abstract

The extraordinary size and the exponential growth of the World-Wide Web demand new approaches to the problems of information indexing and searching in its structure. In this paper, we discuss the limitations of the centralized approach in use today, comment recent work on distributed architectures for Networked Information Retrieval, and present BRight!, distributed system to index and search information in the World-Wide Web. We then focus on BRight! to discuss its architecture and underlying concept of Web Views, compare it with other systems, and show how it scales to Web growth. The current version of a prototype is presented, and future work is outlined.