The military, researchers, and spooks have long known of the value of public domain information, and now DARPA wants to create a search engine to out-Google-Google in the business of organising that information. The agency has put out a call for developers to work on “domain-specific indexing, domain-specific search, and DoD- …

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Tuesday 11th February 2014 03:28 GMT Anonymous Coward

Have servers behind a firewall, then block the DOD IP's. So how their search engine can't crawl the Internet. The NSA is interested in this information as well.

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1. Tuesday 11th February 2014 07:38 GMT frank ly
  
  But ....
  
  ... the DoD and the NSA know about Tor servers and how to use them.
  
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Tuesday 11th February 2014 03:42 GMT Anonymous Coward

DARPA declares war on Google!!

Though, as the commenter above mentioned, once the technology is perfected, it could be turned to control and monitoring of information on a subject, instead of indexing and presentation.

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1. Tuesday 11th February 2014 04:22 GMT solo
  
  Re: DARPA declares war on Google!!
  
  Just like nuclear weapons are controlled by the US but threatened by all?
  
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Tuesday 11th February 2014 05:17 GMT Woza

Memex?

Just wait until Angleton finds out...

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Tuesday 11th February 2014 08:40 GMT ratfox

They're doing it for the children!

That's all right then, right? …Right?

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Tuesday 11th February 2014 20:12 GMT Mark 85

They say:

"DARPA is at pains to emphasise that Memex isn't interested in de-anonymisation applications, nor does it want the search engine attribute identity to IP addresses or servers, nor access information not intended to be published."

But 5 will get you 10 that they want to be able to add that later. Their first target is "human trafficking" but they want their retuns from the search to be anonymous? What good is that?

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Friday 14th February 2014 03:43 GMT Trevor_Pott

Memex

The DARPA-funded search engine custom designed to root out political dissent. First they came for EVERYONE ALL AT ONCE, because the computers now gave them that power.

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