Ok. It took a tiny bit of digging to find it, (found it in slashdot
comments: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/09/201210)
hadoop subproject page: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase
project page: http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/
If you check out the "powered by" section of the wiki
This sounds like the Powerset purchase Microsoft made mid-last year. The
search engine was java based, and does a lot of natural english search
processing:
http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/26/microsoft-to-buy-semantic-search-engine-powerset-for-100m-plus/
Mark
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Are you referring to the search engine? If so, yes, I agree.
On May 9, 1:53 pm, kirk wrote:
> weird that they don't use C#.
>
> Kirk
>
> Bill Robertson wrote:
> >> I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned on that once and today has
> >> something most would characterize as Java next gen.
>
>
weird that they don't use C#.
Kirk
Bill Robertson wrote:
>> I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned on that once and today has
>> something most would characterize as Java next gen.
>>
>
> So if they did it on HDFS (a Hadoop thing) then what did they use?
> (Since I'm too lazy to go look
Guess they just delegate the download part to akamai.com. Still funny
though, someone should inform Ballmer!
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I can verify that I experienced the same -- the world must be coming to an
end! :) I'm too lazy to get up and boot up the windows machine to see if I
get the same experience through windows.
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Bill Robertson
wrote:
>
> > I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned
> I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned on that once and today has
> something most would characterize as Java next gen.
So if they did it on HDFS (a Hadoop thing) then what did they use?
(Since I'm too lazy to go look myself ;-) )
> When I went to download Win7rc1, it was through a simple
> Maybe the following article is misleading, but it seems to suggest
> that microsoft will (or already has) implemented their new search
> engine in Java?
I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned on that once and today has
something most would characterize as Java next gen.
> And it is (or pa
