I wanted to provide an example of the kinds of secure, performant applications that are possible with IPFS, and this made building a search engine seem like a prime candidate. Rather than steal Protocol Labs' idea of 'Wikipedia on IPFS', we decided to take the Kiwix archives of all the different StackExchange websites and build a distributed search engine on top of that. You can play with the finished product here: https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com
I wanted to provide an example of the kinds of secure, performant applications that are possible with IPFS, and this made building a search engine seem like a prime candidate. Rather than steal Protocol Labs' idea of 'Wikipedia on IPFS', we decided to take the Kiwix archives of all the different StackExchange websites and build a distributed search engine on top of that. You can play with the finished product here: https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com