A lot has been written about cloud computing in the last year and each day seems to bring news of a new player in the cloud arena. So what does the cloud have to offer search engine companies like Hyperix? Well that depends on how deep our pockets are. After all, we need a lot of bandwidth, processing power and data storage to run any real search engine. And as we don’t have deep pockets, nor an angel or venture firm backing us we’ve had to be find creative solutions and innovate where possible.
Up to this point we’ve been focusing solely on the technology we’re using that will differentiate ourselves from any other vertical search platform entities out there. We’ve got our own small web crawling cluster setup which we’ve used for some time to test different web crawlers, collect and parse data and measure a variety web crawler values which determine how many CPU cycles, RAM, bandwidth, and storage is necessary to create the vertical search indexes we want. We’ve also been focusing on the quality of the data we’re crawling, the algorithm which ranks the pages crawled, the parsing engines, and the results pages.
Tags: cloud computing, Hyperix, search engine development
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