Pregel

In this post, I describe a simple but powerful framework for distributed computing called Pregel. Pregel was developed by Google, and is described in a 2010 paper written by seven Googlers. In 2009, the Google Research blog announced that the Pregel system was being used in dozens of applications within Google. Pregel is a framework… Continue reading Pregel

Sex, Einstein, and Lady Gaga: what’s discussed on the most popular blogs

I did a little experiment to see what people discuss on the most popular blogs. I downloaded Technorati’s list of the top 1,000 blogs, and crawled 50,000 pages from those blogs. Then I determined the percentage of pages containing words such as “sex”, “Einstein” and “Gaga”. As a baseline for comparison and sanity check, I… Continue reading Sex, Einstein, and Lady Gaga: what’s discussed on the most popular blogs