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Nutch: An Open Source Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-will-it-matter dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Someone forwarded me this site working to create an open source search engine called Nutch. In the age of weighted rankings on search engines for profits, there's an obvious need for an unbiased search engine. After all, isn't a search engine supposed to be for finding relevant data, not as an indirect and sometimes slimy method of advertising? Nutch is clearly in their intial stages, but it would certainly get my vote." You can find the project on SF.net, and also read the Business 2.0 article on it.

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  1. Google? by devphaeton · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last i heard google still doesn't accept bribes for page ranking.

    inobtrusive adverts on the right hand column nonwithstanding.

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  2. Re:Lucene (index and search engine) by cpeterso · · Score: 4, Informative


    Lucene and Nutch are related:

    http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/08/13#When: 12:20:53PM

    Paul Nakada, via email: "It appears that the coding muscle for Nutch is Doug Cutting, the author of Lucene, an Apache Project open source search engine. We use it here at salesforce and have a huge amount of respect for Doug's coding."

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