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At Hadoop Summit, Yahoo! Announces its Tested Distribution

At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine. Hadoop, of course, is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now, as Eric Baldeschwieler, VP of grid computing at Yahoo, described in detail here.?


Powerset, Leveraging Open Source Hadoop, Powers Microsoft's Bing

Last summer, we reported on Microsoft's acquisition (reportedly for $100 million) of Powerset, which specializes in semantic search based on the open source, cluster-based software framework Hadoop. This acquisition of an open source-centric search company was more strategic than many people realize. Hadoop also underlies Yahoo!'s search engine with its ability to search large data sets quickly, and the acquisition of Powerset may have played a key part in how Microsoft decided to give up its effort to acquire Yahoo!

Of course, Microsoft's big search engine news of the week is Bing, which I've found to have both strengths and weaknesses. Surprisingly, as The Register reports, ?Powerset's technology plays only a small part in how Bing works, but what it does in Bing is open source-driven, and interesting.



GigaOm: Yahoo, Now Offering Search as a Web Service

Yahoo today announced the beta version of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which essentially turns its core search and other related technologies into a free web service that can be used by anyone who wants to build a search engine. According to Yahoo: Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. GigaOm points out that it will allow anyone to rank, arrange and display search results that befit their own algorithm, without as much as acknowledging that the results are coming from Yahoo. Check out more analysis at GigaOm, and an analysis of Yahoo's alpha partners.