Yahoo blogged today about their use of Hadoop on 10k cores: This process is not new (see the AltaVista connectivity server). What is new is the use of Hadoop. Hadoop has allowed us to run the identical processing we ran pre-Hadoop on the same cluster in 66% of the time our previous system took. It [...]
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Yahoo has launched a Hadoop blog – to which I’ve just subscribed. They also have a neat intro video with Zawodny interviewing Eric Baldeschwieler.
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Yahoo has added a cool new feature to their Site Explorer: Today comes a new wave for search engines with the first-ever Beta launch of ‘Dynamic URL Rewriting’ in Site Explorer. The new feature provides the ability for site owners to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they’d like Yahoo! to ignore, [...]
Google has officially announced the acquisition of Feedburner today. I also have it on good authority that Yahoo approached Feedburner nearly a year ago about an acquisition and they walked away. Apparently they were looking to get $30M but this price tag was just too much for Yahoo. Of course hindsight is always 20/20.
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Looks like another cool idea coming out of Yahoo. This time around it’s called nocontent. This seems to have been a result of the SES Robots.txt Summit in New York. The only problem is that the implementation is less than ideal. It’s a microformat. Microformats are problematic for text-only robot parsing since you’re forcing the [...]
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It looks like Yahoo Pig is Open Source and written in Java. I think I’m going to spend the weekend reviewing the Hadoop and Pig source code. The highest abstraction layer in Pig is a query language interface, whereby users express data analysis tasks as queries, in the style of SQL or Relational Algebra. Queries [...]
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Check this out.. (via SEC): Yahoo executive Susan Decker received a $850,000 bonus, Yahoo’s Farzad Nazem received a $700,000 bonus , and Yahoo’s Michael Callahan received a $200,000 bonus plus a salary increase for 2007 to $360,000. You could launch a startup with that kind of cash!
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Naill writes about Yahoo’s new javascript hosting platform: Yahoo! is opening up the JavaScript powering its websites a bit more tonight, encouraging developers to directly reference libraries on its servers from within their webpages. Yahoo! User Interface Hosting opens up versioned access to the popular YUI Library, creating faster load times for sites across the [...]
The privacy implications of Google are starting to become really frightening. Gmail, Calendar, Search, Chat. They could (if they wanted) spy on nearly every aspect of my life. How do we know that this isn’t happening right now? The Patriot Act blocks companies from disclosing the fact that information has been given to the government. [...]