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Greg Linden writes about

Yahoo building a Google FS clone?

The Hadoop open source project is building a clone of the powerful Google cluster tools Google File System and MapReduce.

See www.kdnuggets.com/websites/blogs.html

The chart shows peak in mid-May, which is shortly after USA Today broke a story on NSA data mining on May 11, 2006.

John Taylor offers Top 10 Excuses for not automating decisions

Marcos Campos writes on High Performance Scoring with Oracle Data Mining

A recent white paper at the Oracle Data Mining website describes how Oracle Data Mining can scale to score millions of records with modest off-the-shelve hardware. The paper shows some results that complement those in a paper presented at VLDB last year. This type of capability is what makes it possible real-time scoring as described in this series of posts.

Matt Cutts writes about Bot Obedience: Herding Googlebot

At a site or directory level, I recommend an .htaccess file to add password protection to part of a domain. I wrote a quick example of setting up an .htaccess file about this time last year. I�m not aware of any bot (including Googlebot) that guesses passwords, so this is quite effective at keeping content out of search engines.

At a site or directory level, I also recommend a robots.txt file. Google provides a simple robots.txt checking tool to test out files before putting them live.