About

Doug Cutting is a primary developer of the Lucene, Hadoop and Nutch open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. He works for Yahoo!.

10 Responses to “About”

  1. Liam Darmody Says:
    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

  2. udanax Says:
    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?

  3. Paul Santinelli Says:
    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

  4. Matt Says:
    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

  5. Bambarbia Kirkudu Says:
    May 16, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    Good Luck!

  6. Aljaz Says:
    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

  7. James lyle Says:
    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

  8. rik belew Says:
    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

  9. Ian Bicking Says:
    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.

  10. Victoria Livschitz Says:
    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

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