Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard Stallman writes:

 > I'd rather do this sort of deal with duckduckgo, if we are to do it.
 > But using a search engine requires a network connectin.
 > 
 > I have a feeling that we can avoid the need, because the sort of
 > synonym table we need is probably not so big after all.

The problem is not the size of the table, it's aggregating user
queries into priorities for indexing.  This is the bread and butter of
search engines, while being hard to implement with decentralized, and
especially disconnected, users.