Abstract: The peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigm has been very successful like file sharing in Internet-wide communities (e.g., Gnutella, BitTorrent) or IP telephony (e.g., Skype). P2P systems promise perfect scalability from few peers to many millions, and resilience to failures, dynamic variability, and even misbehaving peers with egoistic or even malicious behavior. None of these salient properties requires any global planning, administration, or control; so P2P systems are completely self-organizing. Web search seems to be a perfect match for P2P architectures. The Web has naturally distributed data, spread across the entire Internet, as opposed to artifically hosting all content by a centralized search engine. For user-provided contents in Web 2.0 communities, consideration of the content ownership, the autonomy of users, and the individualized control of privacy would also suggest decentralized solutions with many peers. Using the combined power and knowledge of millions of users and their computers could offer a more informative and pluralistic view of the world’s information. A P2P search engine could benefit from the intellectual input – bookmarks, queries, clicks – of a large user community, without undue risks about privacy or censorship, because users can gather logs on their own computers and control further sharing and aggregation by their individual policies. These potential benefits have motivated a wealth of exciting research on algorithms and systems for P2P Web search. This paper gives a brief overview on the last decade’s research achievements along these lines. Despite all these intriguing promises and notwithstanding the impressive success of simpler file-sharing applications, P2P approaches to Web search or Web 2.0 services did not make a significant impact on the practical deployment side. The wave of P2P euphoria in academic research was followed by a phase of disillusionment about the lack of business models and user incentives. This paper discusses these shortcomings, and points out new opportunities for the P2P paradigm to play a more successful role in future Web applications.

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