If you were to create an index that was distributed among many computers throughout the globe, you’d need some way of distributing, accessing, and managing the data! That’s where a datagrid comes in.
Data Finds a Place on the Grid - Computerworld
Also - some links from ‘The Globus Alliance’ (Globus.Org) to get you started:
More cool visualisation tools - the Visual Thesaurus lets you see and navigate through clusters of words with related meanings.
Beethoven is a relatively minor musician similar in style to Randy Newman. Don’t argue with me, I’m just relating what Musicplasma suggested.
You enter the name of an artist to search for, and you get back a cluster map of related artists. It’s cool.
I liked this exchange in a Usenet thread:
>>>Explore Your Music Tastes
>>>http://www.musicplasma.com/
>>Awesome! 10q!
>I thought so too………
>Im still playing it.
Imagine having fun using a search engine!