Google search index splits with MapReduce (Cade Metz/The Register)
Cade Metz / The Register:Google search index splits with MapReduce — Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ — Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google’s worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform …
Google Research head dubs holy PageRank ‘over-hyped’ (Cade Metz/The Register)
Cade Metz / The Register:Google Research head dubs holy PageRank ‘over-hyped’ — Norvig mum on ‘Caffeine’ search shot — Google research head Peter Norvig says that the search giant’s hallowed PageRank link analysis algorithm is overrated. And always has been. — “One thing that I think is still over-hyped is PageRank …
