1.	All the noise about Napster is coming from the music industry, but they're not the only ones who were routed around. Perhaps suprisingly, so were the search engines.
2.	Napster is a Just In Time Search Engine, or JIT-SE for short, an idea I evangelized four years ago.
3.	http://davenet.userland.com/1996/09/07/FloatingIdeas
4.	The Napster search engine is so dynamic you can easily overlook the stunning innovation. Imagine a Google that indexed content on all the machines that are connected to it, as soon as they go offline, their content disappears, as soon as they come back online, boom all their content is visible again and indexed.
5.	There's a germ of a revolutionary idea in there, and if you work at a Search Engine company, pay close attention, your business is being revolutionized too. A new kind of Internet is developing. It's different from the one before, its purpose is to make finding things easy. Things that are really there. Napster deploys a new architecture that's going to be important, very important.
6.	I often put out public offers to work with other people, usually no one answers. With that in mind, if you want to work on this, I have a content management system with thousands of users, scalable to millions, and I'd like to work on dynamic search engines, but I must stay focused on things I know well, like writing tools and groupware, and be a user of things that are useful where I haven't personally mastered the technology. So if you do search engines and find this interesting let me know.