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Bringing the Highlighter back to Wildcard Queries in Solr 1.4

Solr 1.3 and 1.4 moved away from using BooleanQuery expansion for MultiTerm queries and to a ConstantScoreQuery method. In Lucene,...
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SF Bay Area Meetup Slides Available

Slides from the first Lucene/Solr SF Bay Area meetup are now available here. Thanks to everyone who participated.
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SF Bay area Lucene/Solr Meetup

There is going to be a meetup in the SF Bay Area on Lucene and Solr on June 3. See...
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Positional Term Vector Match in Lucene

Let's learn a little more about positional term vector matches. From time to time, users on the Lucene mailing list...
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PyLucene 2.4.1 Released

Here's the announcement from the PyLucene team: This is a refresher release of Apache PyLucene 2.4.1 that addresses a few...
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Exploring Lucene and Solr’s TrieRange Capabilities

Recently, Uwe Schindler and others have added a new capability to Lucene and Solr to make working with numeric ranges...
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Apache better than GPL for open-source business?

Matt Asay explores an idea that has crossed my mind more than once - the Apache license is pretty nice.
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Lucene, Open Source and the Cost of Experimentation

I was at a company a while back that was considering replacing a commercial vendor with a Lucene/Solr based solution. ...
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Got data? You can build your own Solr-powered Search Engine!

We invite you to a webinar featuring Erik Hatcher, Lucene/Solr Committer and co-author of Lucene In Action. Erik will show...
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Real-time Search With Lucene

Real-time search is kind of a fuzzy concept, but basically it means dropping the time a modification to an index...
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Nested Queries in Solr

The ability to nest an arbitrary query type inside another query type is a useful feature that was quietly added...
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New Version of Luke Released

Luke, the very popular Lucene index exploration and modification tool, has released a new version, 0.9.2. Changes in v. 0.9.2...
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