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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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Lucid Gaze for Lucene

Java Developers have long been familiar with the power of the Apache Lucene open source search library, and have made...
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Searching rich format documents stored in a DBMS

By Jonck van der Kogel Introduction As companies gather more and more data, the ability to search this data is...
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Trends: Know your relevance

"Control, exploration, flexibility, tunability," were the answers expounded by representatives of Microsoft, Endeca, and Vivisimo. Relevance is in the eye...
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ASF Interview with Apache Lucene creator Doug Cutting

https://www.youtube.com/v/XyDQAY9dwsQ
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Training: Up and to the right

As the Great Recession tests all of our economic patience, many people I know, myself include, have gotten into the...
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What Is the SpanQuery?

SpanQuerys allow for nested, positional restrictions when matching documents in Lucene. SpanQuery's are much like PhraseQuerys or MultiPhraseQuerys in that...
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Publishing Case Study: McClatchy Interactive Employs Open Source Search

Highlights Dramatically increased index speed improves timeliness and relevance of user searches Reduced the number of required servers by 85%...
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Library/Catalog Case Study: Europeana – bringing European culture online

Case Study: Chartered by the European Commission in 2007, the overarching goal of Europeana is to create an online environment...
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Ranges over Functions in Solr 1.4

Solr 1.4 contains a new feature that allows range queries or range filters over arbitrary functions. It's implemented as a...
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Interview with Ian Holsman of Relegence (AOL)

Grant Ingersoll speaks with Lucene/Solr committer Ian Holsman, about the advantages of open source in the corporate context, performance optimizations...
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Announcement: bugfix release versions for Lucidworks

We're happy to announce the availability of updated versions of Lucidworks for Lucene and Lucidworks for Solr Lucidworks for Solr...
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