Yahoo! Mail shows another wow factor with the release of Yahoo! Mail Visualization Project, a public display of stats of live data being distributed per seconds, imagine that an average of 16,000 live data that are being delivered per second (for PH daytime) and I know it is more at our PH night time, there's also a live visualization stats on the trending words being used in the mail subject line and also a trending words used by spam mails. (More story below)
We think the technology we’re using to keep your mailboxes safe is quite awesome and we wanted to show you how we do it, so today we’re going live with the Yahoo! Mail Visualization Project – a view of what no one has seen before using live data…how we use cloud computing and Apache Hadoop technology to filter spam and re-route email for the 300 million mail users we have across the globe.Yahoo! did a great job in securing our mails and inboxes and blocking up to more than 550 billion spam messags per month, and that's a 1,800 emails for every Yahoo! Mail user.
The Yahoo! Mail Visualization Project is to show the science and technology of how we use the Yahoo! Mail every day and this is a good viewing stats to see how many people uses technology per day.
and regarding about the Hadoop tech
it aggregate anonymous data from the billions of emails sent and received each day and as a result has helped us reduce spam reports by 65%. Our technology analyzes all this anonymous data (with the help of Hadoop) and identifies spam patterns so we can then use really intelligent algorithms to predict future email patterns that will differentiate “good” and “bad” senders.
here are some perspective on how Yahoo! Mail's computing tech works
- For every loving message from mom, Yahoo! Mail blocks 4 spam messages from the people she warned you about.
- In the time it takes you to read this, our Hadoop software (the brain behind Yahoo! Mail) has learned from more than 4 million user actions.
- In the time it takes sunlight to reach earth, Hadoop processes 332 million user actions, helping reduce spam in Yahoo! Mail.
- Hadoop processes 1 terabyte of data (equivalent to 4,000 years of continuous typing) in the time it takes the fastest human to run a mile.
- We add over 70 million Yahoo! Mail accounts per year – that’s the combined population of London, NYC, Paris and Tokyo.
Visit http://visualize.yahoo.com/
to see the live data fly around the globe.
