Homework 3 (due April 16)

Provide written answers to the following short-answer questions. 
Try to be detailed but concise.

1. What do you believe are the major challenges to widespread adoption 
of open-source search?

2. What are some of the potential drawbacks of using AJAX? Address 
issues from the perspectives of both the programmers and the users.

3. Briefly pitch *three* creative MapReduce final project ideas, 
writing a few sentences for each.