Who Should Run Nutch-Based Web Search Engine(s)?
Nutch.org is dedicated to making the Nutch software better for everyone. That might mean running a small demo site or making a search service available for academic research, but we do not intend to run a destination search site. Running such a service would put Nutch in competition with its users. Instead, we hope that primarily other institutions will run the Nutch software. Governments, universities, and nonprofits are terrific candidates for Nutch. These organizations often have special obligations that for-profit companies don’t (e.g., a seniors’ organization might want to offer search with a special usability focus), so having the source code to Nutch is a huge advantage. Further, these groups often don’t have lots of cash to spend on solutions. We don’t have great data yet on who is running Nutch. As far as we can tell, the most active Nutch users are universities and academic research groups. Some are using Nutch as part of a class, and some are using it because their research
