by Aurelie Herbelot on 1 October 2021
Remember those fruit flies? We are now breeding them! The best offspring will find its way into your PeARS install.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 25 September 2021
In order to cover as many topics as possible in the distributed PeARS index, we set out to extract and cluster topics from the English Wikipedia. Those will be seeded with Fruit Fly hashes of relevant documents.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 19 August 2021
First results are out! How does the Fruit Fly Algorithm perform on document classification?
by Aurelie Herbelot on 1 June 2021
Our new project, codename Fruit Fly, is investigating a state-of-the-art algorithm derived from a biological model to bring Web indexing to the masses.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 2 May 2021
We are very grateful to the NLnet foundation for their award designed to our new PeARS project, codename Fruit Fly. The award will allow us to support two research assistants on the project.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 2 Aug 2018
Follow tutorial on using PeARS to index your Firefox bookmarks and share the resulting pod with your friends.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 11 Feb 2018
There are many reasons to use PeARS and start indexing the Web. But what is yours? Read our profiles, and discover which Web indexer you are!
by Aurelie Herbelot on 9 Feb 2018
Announcing phase 1 of PeARS, codename 'Orchard': a decentralised Web search system allowing people to easily index their favourite web pages (i.e. produce a computer-readable, searchable representation of the pages' content). Its main feature is the ability to convert a small index into a greyish, unassuming picture, called a 'snow pod'. Snow pods are the mini-weapons of the indexing revolution: infinitely shareable, combineable, the building blocks of the people's Internet.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 23 Jan 2017
Some members of PeARS team (Nandaja, Hrishi, Behrang and Aurelie) met in Cambridge (7-11 Nov. 2016) for a week of coding, workshop-ing, eating and getting rained on. Mayalayam semantic space created. Lots of hairdryer hacking. Lots of chai pe charcha.
by Aurelie Herbelot on 03 Nov 2016
PeARS team is very excited to have been chosen as one of eight recipients of a MOSS "mission partners" award. We congratulate the other grantees who all have exciting projects, from anonymity preservation to game engines and screen readers for the visually impaired!