2. people Jon Goldhill Yves Dassas MBA from London Business School Started telecom information business in 1987 PhD in electrochemistry Started voice processing business in 1995 Built international telephony business together 2
6. 6 ..While in early beta, this is a pretty exciting place for a data junkie. www.clearhonestdata.com 12 May 2011 Is Zanran Any Good? Short answer: For some queries, yes, Zanran is quite good. Almost scarily so, actually. http://SearchEngineLand.com 12 May 2011 I don't usually post on non-patent or other IP matters, but I'm making an exception for a valuable search engine that should be used when it's data rather than words that you are looking for.... Steve van Dulken’s blog on Patents and IP, 13 Aug 2011
19. 13 Zanran back end – batch processing Crawl the internet Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 new PDF, Excel, etc Amazon RDS Image processing Is this a graph? Text extraction Find a title + other useful text index Solr 2
20. 14 scale Crawling Image processing Text extraction Re-indexing 10 small instances 300 small instances 20 small instances 1 extra large instance
22. Benefits from using Amazon scaleability – from 3 to 303 servers scaleability – from 7 to 17GB RAM flexibility – Solr development servers ‘ecosystem’ – RightScale, forums lower capital and operations costs 16