[IgorPartola]

This puts it in enough perspective for me to ask: why doesn’t a university create a public/open source search index? Seems like a way to get a ton of attention.

Moreover, archive.org has all the data and data storage capabilities many times over. What prevents them from creating an open source search engine?

[scroot]

Or the Library of Congress, if it had the right appropriations. Google itself started with an NSF grant to explore the future of libraries.