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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Tim Wintle <ti...@teamrubber.com> on 2008/02/20 22:51:20 UTC

Re: TechCrunch's explanation of Hadoop

That's hilarious!

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 09:13 -0800, Ted Dziuba wrote:
> From
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/20/yahoo-search-wants-to-be-more-like-google-embraces-hadoop
> 
> "Hadoop is an open-source implementation of Google’s MapReduce
> software and file system. It takes all the links on the Web found by a
> search engine’s crawlers and “reduces” them to a map of the Web so
> that ranking algorithms can be run against them."
> 
> Sigh.  Tech media.
> 
> ted