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		<title>Massive Performance Gains and Cost Savings using Hadoop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Merriman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Jewitt, our VP of Big Data, challenged me to impress him with an example of the power of emerging technology in solving real world Big Data problems.  I needed a large dataset with a complicated processing requirement to do that and decided to extract witness information from Senate and House hearings for the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content Management &#8212; There&#8217;s an app for that!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Hilger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working in Content Management for over 10 years and been involved in over 30 content management projects.  Sadly, I have never found a customer that was truly happy with their Content Management System (CMS).  Most customers figure out how to work with the system they have and adjust their processes accordingly.  Content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is MarkLogic a Search Engine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Hilger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[endeca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucene]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[solr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vivisimo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am frequently asked if MarkLogic is really a search engine.  It is easy to debate whether MarkLogic fits the classic definition of a search engine.  In my opinion, this is the wrong question.  The question you should be asking is &#8220;Does MarkLogic enable great search experiences?&#8221;  The answer is undeniably Yes. MarkLogic comes with all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Semantics of Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Cagle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semantic Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been taken by the term Information Management. As with so many phrases in the computer lexicon, this is one that has become both very specialized &#8211; focusing primarily upon the various and sundry database applications that a given organization uses &#8211; and rather vague. Vendors seize upon this vagueness by claiming that their [...]]]></description>
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