Lucene/Solr wins Infoworld’s Bossie for Best of Open Source

Congratulations again to Lucene/Solr — winner of the Best of Open Source Software BOSSIE award from Infoworld.com for Open Source Applications for the 2d year in a row:
Do you need to find something quickly in a pile of documents? Practically every website needs some kind of search, and the most serious turn to the Lucene search engine and its server, Solr. Lucene is like a database, but for free-form documents loaded with text. If you want a document with a keyword, it will find it.Lucene is not particularly new, but the team has been very productive lately. Versions 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 all arrived in the last few months, and they deliver a number of small but very useful improvements like a new index format, better spell checkers, simpler sharding, and faster queries.
As Lucene gets better, people are finding more unusual jobs for it. Twitter, for instance, uses Lucene for many of its keyword searching routines. When the main job was just delivering tweets to followers, there was no need for something like Lucene. But full keyword search makes hashtags and the complexity they bring possible.
Congrats to the community, the committers, and all of you out there who are driving the future of search with Lucene/Solr.

You can see the full range of awards and the other winners, like Hadoop and Hudson/Jenkins, here.