I hope not. I mean I understand that privacy is important, but I would hope that the future of the world will respect freedom of speech more then they do today. I would hate it if the only way we can do this is by hiding and obscuring things, plus anonymity is pointless to an author trying to get attention and gain a reputation, and use that reputation to make money through this network.

I understand though that if the world gets worse about the control of information (draconian style), then excessive and ineffecient obscurity of data would be very important.

There are other issues surrounding their techniques besides searching. In some ways Mojonation (mojonation.net) is like Freenet but with search ability, but one of the big problems they suffer is that publishing files is dependant the block servers stay up and stay online, if someone comes into the network for the first time and tries to start a block server, stores some blocks and then finds they cant get the files they want, leave the network never to return, the pieces they stored get lost and files are broken and incomplete if enough people do it. A common occurance with certain sized files, is that the file is always incomplete missing blocks.