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Experts discuss migration from FAST to Solr

Since the purchase of Fast Search and Transfer by Microsoft in 2008, users of the FAST ESP Platform have faced...
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What’s a Shingle in Lucene Parlance?

Every now and then we get asked what the heck is a shingle in Lucene, as in the ShingleFilter or...
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Solr Result Grouping / Field Collapsing Improvements

I previously introduced Solr's Result Grouping, also called Field Collapsing, that limits the number of documents shown for each “group”,...
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Unlimited Developer Access to LW Enterprise

Today, we are proud to announce the successful completion of the Lucidworks Enterprise Developer Early Access Program. During the last...
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Using Lucidworks to Add Search to Web App

Getting search right in your web app means indexing all the content and delivering results that match user's real needs....
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Migrating from FAST to Solr

Since the purchase of Fast Search and Transfer by Microsoft in 2008, users of the FAST ESP Platform have faced...
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The fallacy of web search objectivity

Many of us use web-based consumer search technology without a second thought in looking for a particular document, factoid, or...
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Open Source Search and the Analysts’ Radar

Two analysts reports were published recently by specialists who focus on the search space. Lucene/Solr search (and Lucid Imagination) figured...
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Indexing JSON in Solr 3.1

Solr has been able to produce JSON results for a long time, by adding wt=json to any query. A new...
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Solr Tuning Tips From Sourcesense

Gustavo Fernades, Senior Open Source Consultant at Sourcesense UK, recently did a talk detailing six Solr tuning tips that can...
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Apache Lucene 2.9.4 and 3.0.3 Released

The Apache Lucene community has just released versions 2.9.4 and 3.0.3.  Here is the release announcement: Both releases fix bugs...
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Learn about the Lucid Query Parser – 30 minute on-demand webcast

Learn about the Lucid Query Parser - now available with Lucidworks Enterprise. Click here to view the webcast: http://www.lucidimagination.com/solutions/webcasts/Exploring-the-Lucid-Query-Parser Relevant,...
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