Foreword
I’m a big fan of search engines and Java, so early in the year 2004 I was looking for a good Java-based open source project on search engines. I quickly discovered Nutch. Nutch is an open source search engine project from the Apache Software Foundation. It was initiated by Doug Cutting, the well-known father of Lucene.
With my new toy on my laptop, I tested and tried to evaluate it. Even if Nutch was in its early stages, it was a promising project—exactly what I was looking for. I proposed my first patches to Nutch relating to language identification in early 2005. Then, in the middle of 2005 I become a Nutch committer and increased my number of contributions relating to language identification, content-type guessing, and document ...
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