MCP discussed as a common basis for intelligent decentralized search
What happened
On October 17, a Hacker News front-page discussion asked whether the MCP protocol could serve as a common basis for intelligent decentralized search. The described setup: publishers keep their own data and expose it through MCP servers; an AI assistant takes a question, queries several servers on demand, and returns an answer with sources, licenses, authors and update times. The report covers the idea only, with no deployments, participants or progress mentioned.
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- Hacker News front pageIs MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?
MCP 协议正被讨论为智能去中心化搜索的共同基础：发布方各自保留数据并通过 MCP server 暴露，AI 助手在提问时按需查询多个 server，答案附带来源、许可、作者和更新时间。
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