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Search Readiness Checklist: Moving to Solr/Lucene Open Source Search

Search was once considered a black-box application that ingested content and delivered results to users opaquely. However, driven by the...
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Lucene 2.9 is released

Hello Lucene users, On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger than just the committers) I...
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Contrived FieldCache Load Test: Lucene 2.4 VS Lucene 2.9

*edit* Sorry - jumped the gun with my original test code here - need to close the IndexWriter after the...
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Java Garbage Collection Boot Camp (Draft)

UPDATE: I have finished version 1.0: http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/03/27/garbage-collection-bootcamp-1-0/ I'm working on a Garbage Collection article - I figured I'd share an...
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Posting Rich Documents to Apache Solr using SolrJ and Solr Cell (Apache Tika)

Solr Cell, a new feature in the soon to be released Solr 1.4, allows users to send in rich documents...
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Using Solr NGrams to Implement Auto-Suggest in Search

Learn how to implement an auto-suggest feature for search using EdgeNGrams as part of the analysis chain.
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Setting Up Apache Solr in Eclipse

This article refers to Solr 1.4. For the most current information, please visit http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToConfigureEclipse Apache's Solr is a powerful software...
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Introduction to Apache Lucene/Solr

Lucene and Solr are state of the art search technologies available for free as open source from The Apache Software...
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Tika Text Extraction: Introduction & Example

Tika is a content extraction framework that builds on the best of breed open source content extraction libraries like Apache...
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Getting Started with Lucene Setup

Apache Lucene is a fast, full-featured, full-text search library used in a large number of production environments. In this article,...
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Solr Search Relevance Testing

Many people focus purely on the speed of search, often neglecting the quality of the results produced by the system....
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Google chooses Solr for Public Service Website Search

One of the things I've long envied at Google is their 20% rule, by which they allow developers to carve...
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