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[Hadoop Wiki] Update of "ProjectDescription" by SteveLoughran

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improving the intro

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  = Introduction =
  
  Hadoop was originally built as infrastructure for the [http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ Nutch] project, which crawls the web and builds a search engine index for the crawled pages. Both Hadoop and Nutch are part of the [http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html Lucene] [http://www.apache.org/ Apache] project.
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+ It provides a distributed filesystem (HDFS) that can store data across thousands of servers, and a means of running work (Map/Reduce jobs) across those machines, running the work near the data.
  
  == Hadoop Map/Reduce ==