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- Training Class: Introduction to Search Development with Solr
- Online Training for Solr
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View the WebinarWebinar: Introduction to basics of Search and Relevancy with Apache Solr
The open source Apache Solr search engine provides powerful, versatile search application development technology for you to take full control of your search needs. Solr's rich interfaces offer convenient server packaging of the underlying Apache Lucene search libraries into web service interfaces, and near limitless customizability let you take control of your search. From e-commerce to content management and endless variations in between, Solr is the right tool at the right time to turn the ever growing volume and variety of data and documents to the advantage of your business.
Webinar: Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr
Webinar: From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere:
Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr
sponsored by Lucid Imagination, hosted by TheServerSide.com
Wed, 18 November, 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET / 18:00 GMT
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.
Apache Solr 1.4 – Faster, Easier, and More Versatile than Ever
If you’ve got a lot of data to tame in a variety of formats, there’s no better, deeper, faster platform to build your search application with than Solr. Solr 1.4 expands the power and versatility of the leading open source search server, with its convenient web-services interfaces and well-packaged server implementation.
Erik Hatcher, co-founder of Lucid Imagination, co-author of Lucene in Action, and Lucene/Solr PMC member and committer, presents and discusess key features and innovations of Apache Solr 1.4, covering, among others:
Apache Lucene 2.9: Discover the Powerful New Features
Webinar: "Apache Lucene 2.9: Discover the Powerful New Features"
hosted by Grant Ingersoll
Lucene 2.9 offers a rich set of new features and performance improvements alongside plentiful fixes and optimizations. If you are a Java developer building search applications with the Lucene search library, this webinar provides the insights you need to harness the power of this important update to Apache Lucene.
Grant will present and discuss key technical features and innovations including:
Understanding Lucene Search Performance
Webinar: "Understanding Lucene Search Performance"
hosted by Andrzej Bialecki
Experienced Java developers know how to use the Apache Lucene library to build powerful search applications natively in Java. Open source LucidGaze for Lucene from Lucid Imagination provides a powerful utility for making transparent the underlying search operations, and analyzing their impact on search performance.
Grant Ingersoll Talks with Sammy Yu
Grant talks with Sammy Yu, of Digg.com, the social news website. Sammy discusses how Digg.com uses Solr for everything from deduplication of recommended stories, how they manage a high rate of updates from new content to the index, faceting, and looking ahead to trie-range.
"With Solr, we really treat it as kind of a platform where we can build other kind of things on top of it… We have a very valuable set of data, and we really want to explore new ways of building new features from that data set."
Interview with Patrick O'Leary
Search local! Listen to Grant Intersoll as he speaks with Patrick O'Leary, creator of local Lucene and local Solr, and learn more about inplementing geospatial search.