http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meanwhile_hadoop_news Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 00:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php#comment-8397 J Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:05:05 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php#comment-8397 <p>Big Hadoop!</p> Big Hadoop!

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php#comment-8396 Owen O'Malley Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:38:06 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php#comment-8396 <p>To a web searcher, it doesn't mean that much other than the Yahoo index is a little bigger and fresher. However, the important piece is that Hadoop is stable enough to be used at scale in production. If you have a program that doesn't fit on a single computer, you can use Hadoop to scale it out to thousands of computers. For free.</p> To a web searcher, it doesn’t mean that much other than the Yahoo index is a little bigger and fresher. However, the important piece is that Hadoop is stable enough to be used at scale in production. If you have a program that doesn’t fit on a single computer, you can use Hadoop to scale it out to thousands of computers. For free.

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php#comment-8395 geri Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:16:24 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/02/meanwhile_hadoop_news.php#comment-8395 <p>What does this mean to the web searcher? I have seen several blogs write about this topic, but none has explained why this is important. Could you?</p> What does this mean to the web searcher? I have seen several blogs write about this topic, but none has explained why this is important. Could you?

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