• DOI:10.1109/P2P.2014.6934312
Corpus ID: 3772952

Censorship-resistant and privacy-preserving distributed web search

@article{Herrmann2014CensorshipresistantAP,
  title={Censorship-resistant and privacy-preserving distributed web search},
  author={M. Herrmann and Ren Zhang and Kai-Chun Ning and C. D{\'i}az and B. Preneel},
  journal={14-th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing},
  year={2014},
  pages={1-10}
}

M. Herrmann, Ren Zhang, +2 authors B. Preneel

Published 2014

Computer Science

14-th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing

The vast majority of Internet users are relying on centralized search engine providers to conduct their web searches. However, search results can be censored and search queries can be recorded by these providers without the user's knowledge. Distributed web search engines based on peer-to-peer networks have been proposed to mitigate these threats. In this paper we analyze the three most popular real-world distributed web search engines: Faroo, Seeks and Yacy, with respect to their censorship… CONTINUE READING

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