Breakfast Links 09.12.2008

* Yahoo BOSS Now Serving 100 Queries Per Second

While Yahoo! was recently struggling with lots of negative issues in terms of their business (who is next Yahoo! CEO?), they kept on publishing and propagating their technologies. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, BOSS is now serving 10 million queries per day! In my opinion Yahoo’s search technology is catching up fast and is far ahead of Google’s APIs.

* If you were ever interested in an UIMA Lucene Cas Consumer, check this out:

at the JULIE Lab, we’ve been working (silently) on a new (and completely
altered) version of our Lucene CAS Indexer consumer (Lucas). We are
planning to make this available soon — preferably in the UIMA sandbox.
In fact, LUCAS now is able to perform offset-based token stream
alignment and merging of UIMA annotations (via position increment) in
the same Lucene field (e.g. “documenttext” or “title”), which we feel is
more appropriate for text indexing — instead of putting each UIMA
annotation into a separate field like the Solr approach (still possible
with the new LUCAS).

(UIMA mailing list, Joachim Wermter)

Breakfast Links 20.08.2008

Search Engine Optimization Meets Semantic Search
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/19/when-search-engine-optimization-meets-semantic-search/

Brand Protection using Competitive Intelligence
http://searchengineland.com/080818-110907.php

High Performance HTTP Framework, Simple 4.0 released
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50394

Yahoo is now grouping results, Google tests sorting results by date
http://searchengineland.com/080819-123253.php

Breakfast Links 05.08.2008

Business model which reminds me on the german ebuero
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/04/sick-of-the-garage-rofo-finds-office-space-for-startups/

A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Bookmarklets by Matt Cutts
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/javascript-bookmarklet-basics/

Yahoo Boss – Google App Engine Integrated (result in a question answering service)
http://zooie.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/yahoo-boss-google-app-engine-integrated/

Yahoo Boss Is So Open, It Runs on Google’s App Engine
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/04/yahoo-boss-is-so-open-it-runs-on-googles-app-engine/