FAROO

FAROO is a web search engine based on peer-to-peer technology. Every web PaGE visited is automatically included in the distributed index. This software was created to provide censor resistant and anonymous search.The ranking of search results is based on a distributed usage statistics of the web pages visited by FAROO users.What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ] Better scaling: better application responsiveness and lower processor load under huge incoming traffic.Number of incoming connections and parallel Threads limited, load throttled. Fixed Overload, caused by active crawling under certain conditions. Configuration free NAT Traversal: Allows active peers behind routers. Supports full cone, restricted and port-restricted NAT devices. Symmetric NAT partially supported in Vista, Windows 7 & 2008. Enables multiple active peers per LAN. Used NAT traversal method displayed in Options / NAT traversal. Default internal and external ports are configurable in Options. The internal port used on your computer may be set. If already in use, automatically an alternative port is used. The external port used on your router may be set. Multiple active peers per LAN with different port forwardings. Peers may now be active, even if their external port is not 80.Therfore FAROO may run in parallel to a webserver running on port 80. Unique PeerID`s created e...