Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Best Map Reduce Explanation Ever!

TechCrunch, in covering Yahoo's conversion to Hadoop, tells you about Map Reduce:

It takes all the links on the Web found by a search engine's crawlers
and "reduces" them to a map of the Web so that ranking algorithms can
be run against them.

Is that the most frighteningly wrong technical explanation you've ever seen, or what?

Turns out the guy who wrote it used to write about space. I wonder was he the one who went on able Gallileo having a 'nuclear reactor' in it?


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