While rest of the world is busy with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo might be preparing to launch MObStor which they tout as the “Unstructured Storage for the Internet”. While comparing MObStor to the various Cloud computing storage solutions already available, Navneet Joneja, Sr. Product Manager, mentions Facebook’s Haystack to describe MObStor’s architectural design. He also [...]

Last week I spent a few hours building a search engine testing tool called “BlackboxSET”. The purpose of the tool was to allow users to see search results from three different search providers and vote for the best set of results without knowing the source of the results. The hope was that the search engine [...]