LinkedIn and IndexTank: Open Source Flag Waving
January 23, 2012
According to the GigaOM article “LinkedIn Open Sources Code From IndexTank Acquisition” the purchase of the company is a win-win for LinkedIn and the open source community. “LinkedIn announced that the technology behind IndexTank, the search engine startup it acquired back in October, has been released as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license.
Though the IndexTank technology is impressive, “the team behind it was likely the most attractive aspect to LinkedIn.” IndexTank was started by former Inktomi engineer, Diego Basch. According to the GigaOM article “IndexTank, A Hosted Search Startup Launches” the platform produces fast yet accurate results by “looking at a document and treating constantly changing elements of a page differently from the static content. It then uses memory (and not storage) to store these changing-parts of the document.”
It will be intriguing to see how open source IndexTank is used. Host search systems such as IndexTank and Blossom which is used by Beyond Search have become an invaluable tool for both private and public websites and have become tricks of the trade.
April Holmes, January 23, 2012
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