Next for BitTorrent: Search From a temporary office in San Francisco, the web's most prolific peer-to-peer network is about to morph into a commercial service, with ads from Ask Jeeves. Kevin Poulsen reports from San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO -- Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol. ...
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