I've played with Nutch, and looked at Hadoop, and it's pretty cool stuff. It's also a great foundation for building Google-style solutions to embarrassingly pa

I've played with Nutch, and looked at Hadoop, and it's pretty cool stuff. It's also a great foundation for building Google-style solutions to embarrassingly parallel applications. Combine it with Amazon's EC2 and things look really interesting... I'm glad to see Yahoo supporting/contributing to the community in this way. I think it's stretching the point to call it a 'challenge to Google' - more Yahoo seeking to level the playing field a little.