Michael Brown, CTO at comScore, provided an update on how its technology stack is evolving around Hadoop to support a 300% increase in volume over the last two years. Michael discussed how comScore can leverage its unique data sources to provide an early look into the upcoming impacts in the search industry. This is an especially interesting time as Facebook just announce the advent of their new social graph search feature. Many different analysts have been pontificating on the change and here are some interesting quotes (on CNN Money).
Michael Brown was a founding member of comScore, Inc. in 1999 and leads the technology efforts of the company. In this position, he has scaled the companies processing environment to support over 1.5 trillion events per month. He also has been responsible for over seventeen patent applications at comScore; seven of which have already been issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office.