One of the singular qualities of search technology is its breadth: if it’s been written down (albeit digitally), you can search it, and if you can search it, you can build a search app for it. That’s part of what makes Solr/Lucene so alluring for application development — you can build it to search just about anything, for anyone, in any way. Inspiring breadth, however, can be pretty daunting to master.
How, then, can you …
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LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 release is officially announced today. You can find the announcement here. LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 is a quick successor to LucidWorks Enterprise 1.6, released in Dec 2010. This release builds on our promise to enable enterprises to build search applications easily with Solr, the world’s leading open source search. You can download the LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 here.
Our main objective with the 1.7 release is to provide you with improved enterprise …
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Last week at Lucene Revolution we announced LucidWorks Enterprise. LucidWorks Enterprise is a commercially supported search platform that builds on the power of Apache Lucene and Solr to deliver a flexible and scalable search platform.
Gee. That almost sounds like a marketing guy wrote it. Let me try again: LucidWorks Enterprise is software that let’s you easily build great search applications. You can install it, index some content, and search that content with just a …
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By yonikSeptember 16, 2010
Result Grouping, also called Field Collapsing, has been committed to Solr!
This functionality limits the number of documents for each “group”, usually defined by the unique values in a field (just like field faceting).
You can think of it like faceted search, except instead of just getting a count, you get the top documents for that constraint or category. There are tons of potential use cases:
- For web search, only show 1 or
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Lucene Revolution may very well be the birthplace of the next generation of open source enterprise search. Don’t get left out of this historic gathering! Early bird pricing has been extended to September 17, so register today to join the Lucene Revolution, and meet attendees and speakers from all walks of life – developer and strategist, visionary and pragmatist, grizzled Apache Lucene/Solr veteran and newcomer alike.
More than just theory and academic hypothesis, Lucene Revolution will leave …
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Lately, Brazil has been getting a lot of attention (host to the next World Cup in 2014 and site of the first Olympics to be held in South America in 2016), but it also has gotten attention for its embrace of open source technologies. It was my pleasure to speak at an event organized for business executives by our partner in Brazil, Primeware. The topic?—Open source enterprise search software, of course.
I talk about my …
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Do you remember this scenario from days of yore?
- Company A buys a software license from Company B, a startup.
- Company A crosses its fingers that Company B doesn’t go bankrupt and disappear, along with the source code for Company A’s mission-critical software.
- Company B goes kaput.
- Company A is left with some machine-readable binary code that it is powerless to develop or use.
Source code escrow has changed the outcome of this sticky situation …
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More often than not, our conversations with customers and the community here at Lucid Imagination revolve around relevancy and performance. It seems to me that these are the two hottest topics around searchers – speed and quality of search.
With this post, I have the pleasure to announce availability of New Relic RPM integrated into the Lucid Imagination performance portal. This is great news for the people who care about Solr or Lucene performance.
What is …
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WEBINAR: Take Control of Your Search Destiny:
Migrating to Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search
Hosted by KMWorld and featuring speakers from The Motley Fool
Click here to view the webinar or download the slides
As today’s business landscape changes, more and more companies want control over their search to take on the rapid acceleration in scale and diversity of their data and documents. But legacy commercial search applications can add hidden costs and constraints, and …
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| Tuesday, 3 November 2009 |
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Come visit us at the Lucene Meetup at ApacheCon on Tuesday 11/3 from 8-10pm. All are welcome to come – there is no cost for this event. Come meet many of the key contributors to Lucene and Solr. Sponsored by Lucid Imagination.
Location: Marriott Oakland City Center, Rooms 1&2
For more information about the meetup, visit
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneAtApacheConUs2009…
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