{"id":66,"date":"2004-03-01T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2004\/03\/01\/nutch-an-alternative-to-google\/"},"modified":"2004-03-01T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T15:22:03","slug":"nutch-an-alternative-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2004\/03\/01\/nutch-an-alternative-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutch: an Alternative to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a110'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techreview.com\">MIT&#8217;s Tech Review<\/a> has a great article on the future of web search engines.  It mentions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutch.org\/docs\/en\">Nutch<\/a>, an effort spearheaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/lucene.sourceforge.net\/background.html\">Doug Cutting<\/a> (creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/jakarta.apache.org\/lucene\/docs\/index.html\">Lucene<\/a>) that is implementing an open-source web search engine.  &#8220;The Nutch Organization is a public-benefit non-profit corporation&#8221;, that seeks to provide a window onto the proprietary algorithms used by engines such as Google.  In so doing, the project provides a standard that can be used to expose for-profit search engines that are indexing content based on payments, or incentives unrelated to page merit or relevance, and provides us with high quality source that anyone can use.<\/p>\n<p>Who wants their search engine to be an indirect form of advertising?  Wouldn&#8217;t we like to know why search results are ranked the way they are?  I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com\/\">not alone<\/a> in feeling nervous about Google&#8217;s power.  Anyone who wants an alternative, can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutch.org\/docs\/en\/donate.html\">donate<\/a> to the Nutch project, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutch.org\/docs\/en\/developers.html\">write some code<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of MIT&#8217;s Tech Review has a great article on the future of web search engines. It mentions Nutch, an effort spearheaded by Doug Cutting (creator of Lucene) that is implementing an open-source web search engine. &#8220;The Nutch Organization is a public-benefit non-profit corporation&#8221;, that seeks to provide a window onto the proprietary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}