Search Computing Blog

Apple has recently announced the acquisition of Siri, an application that includes voice recognition and search capabilities.

As some experts suggest (see John Battelle’s blog), Apple could be looking for a search engine for its App Store. As of April 8, 2010, there are at least 185,000 third-party applications available on the App Store.

The engine should not crawl the web and will not be a competitor of Google; it will suggests applications and services to be download/bought, according to the user interaction with the device. continue reading…

In the last few years non-relational data stores have drawn the attention of researchers and pratictioners. Their lack of fixed table schemas and the avoidance of join operators allow these tools to scale horizontally, storing huge amounts of data and providing high-performance access to it.

This class of databases (also known as NoSQL databases) often employs a distributed architecture with the data partitioned and redundantly replicated on several nodes, providing both scalability and fault tolerance.

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