Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

Since we’re getting closer to the public unveiling of the first vertical search engine produced from the Hyperix search platform I think it’s time to release a couple of tidbits about the platform. Hints have been out there for a while and some people within the search community are already aware of this, but one of the primary components of Hyperix is the use of Hadoop.

Here’s the quick intro of what Hadoop does from the open source site:

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For my first post in 2008 I’ve decided to write a little note about opportunities for vertical search platforms such as the one we’re developing at Hyperix.

I’ve said for years now that while the big search engines do a great job for some things they do poorly at others and that many opportunities exist for those who go the vertical search route as a business model. There’s a lot of data out there that can be made into a business product. Today Tim O’Reilly on the O’Reilly Radar wrote about one such opportunity for vertical search in the finance sector in his piece “Predicting Financial Market Performance with Real Time Web Data“. To quote Tim;

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