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Lucene 2.9.1 Released

We were all so caught up in the fun at ApacheCon that no one announced the Lucene 2.9.1 release. Its...
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Solr Flair at ApacheCon US 09 (Lucene Meetup)

Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr (ApacheCon US 2009, Lucene Meetup) View more documents from Erik Hatcher.
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Solritas: Solr 1.4’s Hidden Gem

Solr 1.4 contains a little advertised feature that I think folks ought to know about, Solritas.  What a silly name,...
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Lucene 2.9.1 about to be released

Lucene 2.9.1 should hit the streets this week. 2.9.1 will be a bug fix release and includes a number of...
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Solr Migration, Consolidation For Online Search/Advertising Co.

Highlights Lucid Imagination helped an online search and advertising company move to Solr from a proprietary commercial search platform: Migrated...
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Lucene and Solr: the Java of data

Among its recent technology news (beyond Windows 7 and the predictably delightful Apple riposte), two items of note, with previews...
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The high bar for relevancy?

A big chunk of the billions that go to search-engine marketing and search engine optimization, SEM and SEO, (mostly to...
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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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