
Mastering Solr 1.4, the Lucene Search Server, with Yonik Seeley
On-Demand Webinar: How search unlocks log metadata to visualize your business process in the cloud
As cloud computing takes business processes and their data beyond the limits of specific local systems and storage, search technology plays a vital role. It retrieves and organizes data from multiple disparate sources and can translate cloud data into a unified, user-centric view – one that fits the specific needs of your business in a very specific time and place. Learn how Boomi worked with Lucid Imagination to give customers a near-real time integrated view of business process execution in a single instance, multi-tenant platform.
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Analyze This! Tips and tricks on getting the Lucene/Solr Analyzer to index and search your content right
Join Lucid Imagination Senior Staff Engineer Tom Hill to for an in depth technical workshop to learn how the Lucene/Solr analyzer can grab and index text and field data, overcome grammatical and semantic variations, and how a little careful preparation and tuning lets you unleash the full power of Lucene/Solr Open Source Search.
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Introduction to Basics of Search and Relevancy with Apache Solr
In this introductory technical presentation, renowned search expert Mark Bennett, CTO of search consultancy New Idea Engineering, will present practical tips and examples that web application developers can use to quickly get productive with Solr, including working with the "web command line" to control your search, understanding Solr's DISMAX parser, using Solr's Schema browser and more.
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Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr
In this on-demand webinar, you'll hear from Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the Apache Lucene PMC, for an in-depth technical workshop on the potential and application of the newly released Lucene and Solr geo-search functions. Grant will be joined by thought leaders: Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS and Apache Lucene PMC member; and Sameer Maggon, of Lucid Imagination customer AT&T Interactive, which manages and delivers online and mobile advertising products across AT&T's media platforms.
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Enterprise Search: Breaking down the Barriers to Information
Business and government are using enterprise search to lower barriers to information for search, retrieval, analysis and exploration. Now Open Source is lowering the barriers to search, accelerating time-to-value from rapidly growing, diversifying organizational document and data resources.
Hear from real-world experts with hands on experience and deep insights on where open source search can make a difference for your organization, the critical success factors, and lessons learned using search to drive new business models: Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, Search and Discovery Technologies, IDC, Ranga Muvavarirwa, Director, Product Planning & Development, Comcast Interactive Media and Tom Morton, Search Architect, Comcast Interactive Media and Co-Author, Taming Text.
Improving Findability: From Search to Found. Get started faster. Get better results.
Find what you're looking for? LucidWorks for Solr lets you quickly build faster, smarter open source search applications.Open source search with Solr/Lucene gives you the power to turn a wide range of information into fast, useful, relevant results LucidWorks for Solr gives you a tested, release-stable certified distribution of open source search with enhanced tools and installation for building search apps quickly and reliably.
In this on-demand webinar, Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chair of the Apache Lucene PMC, will present and demo of LucidWorks for Solr.
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Search Strategies that Put Social Technology to Work
Join Lucid Imagination Chief Architect Brian Pinkerton, to examine how Lucene/Solr Open Source Search Technology is unlocking the value inside the torrents of data produced by social technology. We’ll explore search strategies with thought leaders Dave Hendi, Director of Engineering for Search at MySpace.com, and Ty Ahmad-Taylor, CEO of Fanfeedr.com, and discuss Digg.com, LinkedIn, and other cutting-edge Lucene/Solr use cases, to help you discover the search innovations that can put your social media data to work.
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Migrating to Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search with KMWorld and The Motley Fool
Finding the right information at the right time is critical to a winning investment strategy. Multimedia financial-services company The Motley Fool worked with Lucid Imagination to successfully migrate from a closed commercial solution to the versatile power of Apache Lucene and Solr open source search.
Join Motley Fool Director of Search Danny Hsia and Motley Fool Search VP Tech Operation Chad Wolfsheimer, along with Lucid Imagination's Erik Hatcher, to hear how The Motley Fool took control of their search technology and migrated to Lucene/Solr Open Source Search - and dramatically improved search relevancy, speed, versatility and costs.
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Grant Ingersoll Talks with Peter Keegan
Grant talks to Peter Keegan, principal software engineer at Monster.com, about how Monster uses Lucene to match jobs and jobseekers with search that spans nearly a million jobs alongside tens of millions of resumes, updating index and content every 15 minutes, plus using payloads with fields, and more.

