IT Manager's Journal: Why the Future of Search May Be Open Source

"With Google rumored to be on the eve of a $4 billion IPO, Web search technology is attracting a lot of attention from technologists and business people alike. Doug Cutting, president of open source search software project Nutch.org thinks he has the next big thing in search: open source.

"Search was indeed the topic Thursday evening at PARC, at an event sponsored by the Software Developer's Forum and organized by MIT Technology Review editor Wade Roush. Cutting, Google Director Peter Norvig, Ask Jeeves VP Jim Lanzone and VC Sharon Weinbar spoke about the technology and business of search..."

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