[Search-l] Search Team Update: July 1, 2008

[Dan Lewis]

Here's what the Search team worked on last week:

Nutch 2:
* Continued work on Link Analysis
* Continued work on Link Farm Analysis
* Created WebGraphDb for preprocessing before Link Analysis
* Created WebGraphDb reader
* Improved page scoring tools

Search Tools:
* Created IPBlocking filter for KT
* Added filtering for KT calls, including filtering by has attribute value
and by newer timestamp
* Added individual maximums for tuples in KT
* Added request multiple tuples in a single call
* Mocked up and began work on advanced API add
* Worked on on-the-fly language translation
* Worked on toolbar
* Fixed scrolling of new items
* Fixed header bug
* Fixed some weird bug where adblock was blocking search results
* Basic URL checking is in place
* Added more "try also" sites

Operations:
* Enhanced KT performance
* Planning Hbase upgrade to 0.1.3
* Moved overview.mov to Vimeo

Community:
* Cleaned up metrics
* Started work on Wikia Search blog
* Working on tool to allow you to find friends of friends
* Added "Top Users" link on Metrics
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