be controlled by private, commercial, secretive organisations," says Doug Cuttings, veteran web search engineer, and a Nutch founder. Three years on, nothing really changed despite the reasoning behind such a project being the same. some big names behind it. looking at how it works. Interesting read especially for the efforts that are involved to defeat spam. The argument is that though Nutch is open, revealing secrets won’t hurt because spammers will batter down any defenses, no matter how tightly protected. OK, so what will stop spam?
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approximate traffic competative keywords bring. “I’m no expert, but it’s hard for me to image what sort of algorithm would be able to distinguish the highly entertaining, very intelligent, but often utterly filthy Pretty Dumb Things (apparently still in the Google penalty box) from run-of-the-mill sites that use similar language in similar quantities, and even in similar, but tremendously less artful ways. So you can imagine how amused I am to see that human-powered search is the topic of the day. Thankfully, PTD appears to be out of
coming into this fresh with fewer resources and no real prior experience. I only do whatever sounds like it is fun. Wikia’s initial round was 4 million from a variety of angels, then there was second round from Amazon, but the amount wasn’t announced. When I first heard of the plans, I was pretty dubious the project would have much success. For one thing, the idea of the "open source" search engine to take on the world and provide more transparency is old news. The project "is about providing free technology that should not
Jimmy Wales is quite the hypocrite, and I’ve seen that he’ll attempt to change history in ways that rival Stalin’s efforts. How is it that Wales has said of Wikipedia, “We try really hard to deal with customer service complaints. We’re not a wide-open free speech forum that allows people to post whatever. We’re happy to delete rants and things like that as necessary. I think that’s part of the reason why we haven’t been sued,” but when MyWikiBiz followed his recommendation to the letter (>http://www.
searches that will happen on any particular day. You have to recognize the difference between the way community is often used on the internet, which is short hand for millions of people clicking on some stuff as compared to community in the wiki world, which is people who actually know each other. It’s one thing to say if you have millions of spammers out there trying to game and trick an algorithm …. but it’s not the number of queries. it’s the web sites themselves. A lot of numbers are thrown about for sites on the web, but
contribute their code back to Apache repository). Then the real winner can be an open-source community. If possible, WikiPedia should make its ongoing detailed stats, public. It would be interesting if Wales would consider it ASAP. The stats that are currently available are generalized. This is exceptionally important because Wikipedia is now on page one or page two for many competative terms in Google and Yahoo. This would offer a unique opportunity to analyze what percentages of traffic each of the top search engines bring – and also how much