Despite having a healthy list of mirror sites, OpenOffice.org's servers have begun to choke on the demand for binary and source file downloads. After all, the Open Source office suite was downloaded about a million times in May from its official CollabNet servers alone, and no one expects things to slow down much from now on.

To make OpenOffice files more accessible -- and give its servers a breather -- community managers are turning to the peer to peer movement, asking members for their best shot at an appropriate P2P file-sharing system.

For the first round, at least, they're handing the project over to another Sun Microsystems-backed community, P2P-oriented Project JXTA. JXTA technology is a set of open protocols allowing connected devices to communicate and collaborate. Members of the JXTA community are working on a variety of consumer and corporate projects, including a handful of content distribution and file-sharing approaches the OpenOffice.org leaders want.

News source: Newsforge

AlltheWeb's effectiveness already has made it a hit among scientists, librarians and other researchers looking for more obscure data.

By expanding the amount of online turf it scans, AlltheWeb believes it will become even more useful to a broader audience.

"Our goal is to develop the best search experience possible," said John M. Lervik, Fast Search's chief executive. "We really hope Google responds to this."

Google regards "quantity as just one component of search," said company spokesman David Krane. "We still believe we offer the most comprehensive search experience on the Internet."

While Google has long boasted about the breadth of its Web indexes, the company takes even greater pride in the complex formulas that it had developed to deliver quick results that list the most pertinent destinations.


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