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Doug Cutting is a primary developer of the Lucene, Hadoop and Nutch open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. He works for Yahoo!.
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Doug Cutting is a primary developer of the Lucene, Hadoop and Nutch open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. He works for Yahoo!.
December 7, 2006 at 7:26 am |
Good morning Doug -
My name is Liam Darmody and I am with Revolution Health Group, an exciting new start-up in Washington, DC founded by Steve Case. I am not contacting you to try and solicit business, but rather, I wanted to see if you might be able to offer some advice.
We are currently in the final stages of putting together a portal that we will be releasing to the public. Upon completion, the portal will serve as an all-in-one place for healthcare information that is readily available and easily accessible to patients. We think what we’re doing is pretty cool, and we’re always trying to make it better. To try and visualize what we’re doing, think “aol + myspace + webMD = Revolution Health Group.” Given the success of those three, we think RHG is going to be a big hit!
Part of our portal has a pretty intense search app, obviously, and we have been utilizing Lucene to maximize our success. From what our developers tell me, it’s great!!!
Alas, I am looking for talented developers familiar with Lucene and I figured I would inquire to you about the community. Since we are developing our product in Ruby on Rails, I know that Open Source development communities are tightly knit, and I wanted to know if that applied to Lucene as well. Thought perhaps you could help me out!
Hope all is well at Yahoo! and I do hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks so much!
Liam Darmody
Recruiting Coordinator
Revolution Health Group
202-481-6754
February 1, 2007 at 11:40 pm |
i think….
does nutch&hadoop need to be a rdf storage or.. utilization analysis storage like a google’s bigtable?
what’s your plan?
March 19, 2007 at 6:19 am |
Doug…
Paul Santinelli here. I think you may have caught up with my partner Michael Skok. Let me know if you have some time to discuss Lucene. I’d like to get your opinion on all these search projects seeming to launch around Lucene.
Let me know if you are around in SF over the next few weeks.
–paul
April 11, 2007 at 3:05 am |
Hi Doug,
1. You are an amazing guy! :)
2. I wish you can reply my message.
3. I have started to work with Nutch few months ago, I also got a book for Lucne.
I have integrated Nutch with Eclipse for developing some plugins and make some tweaks in it.
4. I am working on building a set of customized search engines that utilize Nutch as its core.
5. I have B.S.C in Computer Engineering and I love this field. :)
6. I have some laser targeted questions about my tweaks, if you can help me in them I would really appreciate it.
7. I will wait for your email :)
Thank you in advance,
Matt
May 16, 2007 at 1:04 pm |
Good Luck!
July 31, 2007 at 4:27 am |
Hi Duog,
seems like Nutch won’t index pages in UTF-16. If I change the page to
UTF-8, it works correctly. Can you help please?
Regards,
Aljaz
December 18, 2007 at 2:58 pm |
Am not sure i am allowed to post here! I hope so. I have a client in the San Francisco Bay Area who needs somone who know Lucene inside and out (at least very in-depth). This is a full-time/permanent position. Would appreciate the opportunity to speak with anyone who is interested or can help in the search! Thank you so much,
James Lyle
james.lyle@genp.com
March 20, 2008 at 3:03 pm |
Hi Doug,
I am giving a talk in about a month where I’d like to review
arguments for search/crawling “transparency.” i first heard
some of these themes from you, before Nutch. i’ve
run across your talk slides to IIIA-2006 but i was wondering
if you have anything else to say these days?
Rik
April 9, 2008 at 1:51 pm |
Your name isn’t in this About. I guess you are Doug. You should put your name into this blog somewhere.
April 10, 2008 at 1:24 am |
Hi Doug,
I am not sure of a better way to get in touch with you. I am moderating a panel on the Future of Open Source Data Grids at the CFP 2008 Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, May 15th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, in Oakland, California. I’d like to ask if you’d be interested in participation, or suggest someone who can represent Hadoop in your stead. Other confirmed participants are Nikita Ivanov of GridGain, Neva Perry of OpenSpaces and Daniel Templeton of Sun’s Hedeby project.
Sincerely,
Victoria Livschitz
Founder, Grid Dynamics
http://www.GridDynamics.com
vlivschitz@griddynamics.com
September 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm |
Sir
this is sohail.roshni from dubai.
i have been to your site http://www.foofactory.fi/c/ and i was quite interested in the nutch search engine project.
i am trying to develop a vertical search engine and i came across the nutch project.
i am looking to hire a coder who can develop a search engine using this open source.
please let me know if you can take up this work.
thanks
sohail.roshni
January 13, 2009 at 4:26 am |
Hi Doug,
i have a quastion, hope you can help me.
plan to programm a personalized search client based on lucene.
in the api i can’t find personalized elements. do you have an example to use lucene for personalized search.
i’m right to use the field-elements to personalized a lucenedocument, or is there a better way like arrays of user, the can read the searchresults.
please let me know how i can handle this problem.
thanks for answer
Tim de Buhr
March 17, 2009 at 1:34 pm |
Hi Doug-
I have a question regarding mobile analytics and something that your advice would be extremely beneficial.
Would love an email from you and we can discuss details.
looking forward to it
-vishal