Articles by Grant Ingersoll

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A Farewell

A little over 12 years ago to the day, I took the single greatest leap of faith in my working...
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The Truth Behind ‘Rigging’ Search

A recent tweet by Donald Trump stated that “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake...
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Update on Our Fusion and IBM Watson Integration

Back at Lucene/Solr Revolution, we announced the integration of Lucidworks Fusion and certain IBM Watson services, including Speech To Text,...
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Alert! Alert! Alert! (Implementing Alerts in Lucidworks Fusion)

We live in a streaming world.  Tweets, updates, documents, logs, etc. are flowing in all around us all the time,...
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Hierarchical Faceting and Display with Solr and jQuery

Intro Visiting two major clients in two days last week, each presented me with the same question: how do we...
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[Update] Accessing Words Around a Positional Match in Lucene

Way back when, I posted a blurb on how to access words around a positional match in Lucene and a...
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Estimating Memory and Storage for Lucene/Solr

Many times, clients ask us to help them estimate memory usage or disk space usage or to share benchmarks as...
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Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0

It's official, Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0 are officially released.  Keep an eye here for more on the...
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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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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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Getting started Spell Checking With Apache Lucene and Solr

Introduction Recently, I did some minor work on improving the usability of the Lucene spell checker (see LUCENE-2479, LUCENE-2608 and...
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[UPDATE] Spatial Search in Apache Lucene and Solr

One of the most frequent things I get asked is "what is the state of spatial in Lucene and Solr?" ...
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