[Announcement] SearchWorkings.org is live!

[Frank Scholten <fr...@frankscholten.nl>]

Hi all,

This is an announcement of the community site SearchWorkings.org [1]

SearchWorkings.org offers search professionals a point of contact or
comprehensive resource to learn and discuss all the
new developments in the world of open source search and related
subjects like Mahout and Hadoop.

The site is created by a group of search professionals from the
Lucence & Solr community and I am involved in it
to cover topics related to Mahout and Hadoop. The initial focus is on Lucene &
Solr, Mahout and Hadoop but aims to be much broader.

Like any other community website, content will be added on a regular
basis and community members can contribute too.

Right now, you have access to a extensive resource centre offering
online tutorials, downloads, white papers and access to a host of
search specialists in the forum.
In addition you can post blog items and keep up to date with relevant
news.

We look forward to more and more blogs, articles and tutorials, real
case-studies or 3rd party extensions for OSS Search components.

You are more than welcome to contribute and tell your story about
using these technologies.

Have fun,

Frank

[1] http://www.searchworkings.org
[2] Trademark Acknowledgement: Apache Lucene, Apache Solr and Apache
Mahout and respective logos are trademarks of The Apache
Software Foundation. All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Re: [Announcement] SearchWorkings.org is live!

[Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com>]

Good idea.

For notability:

- AOL announced that they would be using Mahout for product and people
recommendation

- Amazon said that they would be using it for movies (I think, verify this)

- the powered by page has a bunch of other links, but little reliable third
party references

- I doubt if the Mahout in Action book counts as a reference, but it has a
good case study of industrial use



On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Dan Brickley <da...@danbri.org> wrote:

> Maybe the text in http://mahout.apache.org/ (with some wikification)
> would be a useful improvement to the Wikipedia entry? For evidence
> that Mahout is notable ... are there a some major sites that
> acknowledge usage of Mahout listed somewhere?
>

Re: [Announcement] SearchWorkings.org is live!

[Dan Brickley <da...@danbri.org>]

On 12 September 2011 12:51, Frank Scholten <fr...@frankscholten.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an announcement of the community site SearchWorkings.org [1]
>
> SearchWorkings.org offers search professionals a point of contact or
> comprehensive resource to learn and discuss all the
> new developments in the world of open source search and related
> subjects like Mahout and Hadoop.

Hey, this looks great. One little bit of feedback --- the description
of Mahout that you have in http://www.searchworkings.org/projects

"Mahout is an Apache project to produce free implementations of
distributed or otherwise scalable machine learning algorithms on the
Hadoop platform.     Mahout is a work in progress and has a large
backlog of multivariate analytics algorithms still as a work in
progress/not implemented."

...this maybe could be a bit more positive? Seems a shame to use half
the description to talk about all the things Mahout doesn't do.

The text seems to come from Wikipedia, ... I wonder if it was written
~2008 or perhaps contributed to Wikipedia by someone who wasn't very
impressed or enthusiastic about the project.

BTW looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Mahout it's still
just a stub, and now has a blurb warning,

[aug2011]"The topic of this article may not meet the general
notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding
reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be
established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or
deleted."

Maybe the text in http://mahout.apache.org/ (with some wikification)
would be a useful improvement to the Wikipedia entry? For evidence
that Mahout is notable ... are there a some major sites that
acknowledge usage of Mahout listed somewhere?

cheers,

Dan