Breakfast Links 10.11.2008
* Introducing Mahout: Apache Machine Learning
Grant Ingersoll posted his presentation about Mahout from last week on the ApacheCon US 2008. The presentation is in general about machine learning, different approaches, methods and the current status of Mahout. Check it out!
* Multi Core Chips and Search Performance
Interesting article on Search Performance in terms of [...]
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Intro to Mahout
Solr 1.3 Article on DeveloperWorks
Breakfast Links 06.11.2008
* What’s new with Apache Solr
A worth reading article from Grant Ingersoll on Apache Solr 1.3 at IBM developerWorks. Beside the introduction to Solr, it covers the new features since 1.3 like the Import Handler (from Databases, Filesystem, RSS etc.), Similarity Search and the concept of Distributed Search.
* Updating and Deleting Documents in [...]
Truevert Green Search
Breakfast Links 04.11.2008
* Truevert Green Sarch Engine
OrcaTec from the US is running the green search engine truevert. Its aim is to display only search results with the topic of green, natural etc. stuff. Truevert is not using its own crawler but uses Yahoo! BOSS to retrieve search results and their technology for clustering and some [...]
Another Video Search Engine from Exalead
Breakfast Links 03.11.2008
* Exalead-Labs: voxalead
The parisian search engine company Exalead released their video search engine voxalead. It combines Exalead’s indexing (Entity Recognition) and search technology with third partie’s Voice recognition (LIMSI). Currently they indexed mostly french and us channels and a small amount of german channels. Beside the search through the voice-to-text extracted contents you [...]
Birds Of A Feather Sessions in New Orleans
Breakfast Links 31.10.2008
* Birds Of A Feather Sessions (BOFs) in New Orleans
BoF sessions on the ApacheCon are informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. Grant Ingersoll from Lucene proposed two sessions, one on Apache Machine Learning (Mahout, UIMA) and one on Apache Search (Lucene, Nutch, Search). I would have increased the counter, unfortunately [...]
Downturn in Search?
Breakfast Links 30.10.2008
* Disturbing Data, Possible Parallel for Search
Stephen Arnold about parallels from the “beyond search” business today to the crisis in the semiconductor field in 2001 regarding to this article. In my opinion this sentiment is not applicable to the market in Germany (and maybe Europe) since we’re just touching the tip of the [...]
Google Finally Adds RSS Feeds For Search Results
Breakfast Links 29.10.2008
* Google Adds RSS Feeds For Web Search Results
Finally Google added RSS support to their web search result inside Google Alerts. You don’t have to scrape off stuff from Google Web Search anymore. But, RSS support in the ordinary Google Web Search page is still missing…
* A Project Taxonomy Can Avoid Hours of [...]