Prototype
Yes, it gives stale search results. Apparently they're using the test dataset from http://commoncrawl.org/ as mentioned in their blog because crawling is the easiest part a search engine. Nonetheless, it's a good start if it's truly decentralized and can scale up to compete with Google.
They use an interesting definition of "artificial intelligence" to mean there's no human intervention in the ranking algorithms, thus no censorship, no cadre of biased employees to feed the beast, and much lower costs. If that's workable it could open up much-needed competition in the search market. Lofty goal though.
I wouldn't worry about them getting sued. Open source search engines Lucene and Xapian have been around for years, they're widely used, and the algorithms are unlikely to be encumbered by patents.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
