No I think this could work.
The fact that you're using distributed applications to do it means that you could get people surifing on 56k modems, people on dialup ISDN lines, or people sitting an E3 connection.

Anyway, you wouldnt be downloading entire pages, just the source.

And the fact that a lot of stuff on the web isnt viewable to everyone, well, its viewable to some people. And if those people are running this app, and they can view that stuff, they've probably got it in their favourites or in cache. So then it would be indexed too.


I mean look at any distributed computing application.
The likes of SETI@Home, Intel/UD's cancer cure app, the "Help VB World help a good cause" app.
They're basically brute-forcing billions upon billions of combinations of things. So why couldnt we ?

Oh yes and the net effect of mapping the net ... well there is none really. It was just an idea