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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A big chunk of the billions that go to search-engine marketing and search engine optimization, SEM and SEO, (mostly to you-know-who) are spent on getting to Page 1 of the results.
I won’t be the first to point out that relevance for in-house search — i.e., without using Pagerank — is a harder nut to crack. How much harder? A recent study from Aberdeen Group, publicized this week in Information Week, provides the following …
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First, major kudos to the JavaZone team for putting on one of the most impressive conferences I’ve attended and had the honor at which to speak. From the tasty and hearty speakers dinner to Carl delivering my post-talk absent mindedly forgotten power cable to my hotel, the organizers put on a very well organized and classy event. The conference not only sported top notch technical content from the best of the best speakers (some of …
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| Wednesday, 9 September 2009 |
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I’ll be giving a talk at the upcoming JavaZone being held in Oslo, Norway September 9 and 10th. Here’s a brief abstract of the talk:
Solr is a star in the enterprise search world, powering very popular ecommerce systems, content management systems, and many other internal and externally facing search systems throughout the world. This presentation will show you the power and ease of use of
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Weird title, I know, but they are my pet names (there probably are better terms for them in use elsewhere) for two techniques I find often help people solve search problems in the real world, but don’t necessarily seem like good things to do at first glance.
Fake Queries
If you’ve ever attended on of my trainings, you know I’m fond of saying “Just because a user types words into a search box, doesn’t …
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