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Lucene 3.0 Released! Get the Certified Distribution from Lucid Imagination

>>> Download Lucidworks Certified Distribution for Lucene v3.0 and get the Programmer's Guide to What's New in Lucene 2.9/3.0<<< What's...
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On-demand Webinar: Shining New Light on Lucene/Solr Performance and Monitoring

>>> Click here to view the on-demand webinar and slides <<< With content growing exponentially in variety and volume, making the...
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Apache Lucene EuroCon In Review

Last week I had the privilege and pleasure to travel to Prague for our Apache Lucene EuroCon event. I want...
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Migrating from Lucene to Solr?

Guest Blog Post Many Lucene implementations, of a variety of vintages, date back to a time where Solr lacked core...
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What is a “DisMax” ?

The term "dismax" gets tossed around on the Solr lists frequently, which can be fairly confusing to new users. It...
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Search – What’s in it for you?

By:  ArnoldIT.com The search and content processing sector is in transition, making for both an exciting and challenging time. Stephen...
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Data Mining Data.Gov: Statistics from FEC Candidate Summary Files

One of Solr's lesser known features (at least from my perspective) is the StatsComponent. Stats is a feature that was...
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NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup

NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup, 7-9PM Eastern, Tuesday May 11 Cool Linguistic Tricks to Apply to Search Results: A source code...
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NoSQL, Lucene and Solr

The other day, Michael Coté asked me where Apache Lucene and Solr fit in with the NoSQL movement (having heard...
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For The Guardian, Solr is the new database

I blogged a few days ago about how open search source is disrupting the relationship between data and data access,...
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Why Lucene? Why Lucid?

I've spent a third of my life, my entire professional career, doing what I love: developing software. More specifically, even...
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How to Get Started in Payloads

In Lucid Imagination » Getting Started with Payloads, I introduced the basics of payloads, but that article is now slightly...
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