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Nutch Update

By - April 21, 2004

logo_nutchThe recent announcement of Mozdex, which is leveraging the Nutch open source engine, reminded me to ping Doug Cutting and see how things were going with the Nutch project. He replied that while Mozdez only crawls a few million pages, it’s a start, and he was pleased to see folks starting to use Nutch. He also pointed to ObjectsSearch, another site which uses Nutch.

But Doug said that his focus these days with Nutch is not to try to get a major, open source alternative to Google or Yahoo out there, though that remains a long term goal. Instead, he reports:

I’m opting for organic growth: get some users and developers
will follow.

In this vein, I put together a demonstration a few weeks ago for Oregon
State University. They love it. It’s at:

http://devjr.cws.oregonstate.edu:8080/en/search.html

Compare this to their Google appliance at:

http://search.oregonstate.edu/web/

The quality is pretty close, and the price a lot less. It took me about
20 steps to build that demo, I want to reduce that to just a couple, to
put it within the grasp of any campus webmaster. Then I’ll turn it over
to them to operate themselves.

I’m also contracting to build a Nutch-based search engine for the
http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/edgecomputing_search.html

  • Jim

    I am writing regarding and NEW, if any, information relative to the present status of Nutch. My searches have only resulted in information ending in the 2004-3005 time frames. Any help relative to current, as in July 2006, information realtive to Nutch’s staus will be appreciated..

  • Jim

    I am writing regarding and NEW, if any, information relative to the present status of Nutch. My searches have only resulted in information ending in the 2004-2005 time frames. Any help relative to current, as in July 2006, information realtive to Nutch’s staus will be appreciated..