September 1, 2010
Yes, a new study of lost productivity is out. No, it’s not about the number of people who spend time on Facebook or Woot.com at work. Thomson Reuters quantifies the problem as $1.5 trillion in lost productivity, with some interesting numbers around how many professionals are getting 50+ emails per day (I think the answer is “everyone I know”.) Cleverly enough, I’ve seen more than one legacy commercial search technology company come…
August 31, 2010
After so many of you attended the recent webcast we sponsored on “Findability: Designing the Search Experience” with Tyler Tate of Twigkit, there was a long list of questions that didn’t get addressed during the course of the presentation. As there was a pretty good list of them, we thought you might find it useful to get some more insight. So we’ve invited Tyler to put together some answers to your inquiries.
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August 27, 2010
In the few short years since Yonik Seeley stood Apache Solr up on its feet, there’s been an accelerating realization that the Apache Lucene is going farther faster because of Solr — the Lucene Search Server. 
Now, it’s official: InfoWorld has put Solr up as one of the Top Ten open source applications, awarding it a BOSSIE award for the Best of Open Source Software
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August 24, 2010
Check out today’s interview of Satish Gannu, director of engineering at Cisco responsible for their Pulse platform, a social technology-driven expert system. Using Lucene/Solr at the core of their offering, Cisco changes the equation on the classic knowledge-management platform by speeding knowledge value — cutting the time it takes to find people in the organization who know what they’re talking about.
Why are you interested in Lucene/Solr?
We talked to multiple companies, and we
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August 19, 2010
Findability: Designing the Search Experience
See the video & download the slides
Consumer search engines have set user expectations at a simple box – and billions are being invested to deliver findability to satisfy a world of consumers.
But you don’t need billions of dollars or millions of users to build a user-friendly search application. In fact, studies of how and why people search have revealed a set of principles that — if followed —…
August 17, 2010
Lucene in Action, Second Edition
continues to harvest Kudos from people who ought to know. Bob Carpenter of Lingpipe found a lot to like:
If you’re interested in version 3 or later of the Apache Lucene search library, you need this book. As far as I know, this book is the only way to come up to speed on the intricacies of Lucene … Is it a good book? I’m going to…
August 11, 2010
Do you have a tough problem with your Solr application? Facing challenges that you’d like some advice on? Looking for new approaches to overcome a Solr issue? Not sure how to get the results you expected? Don’t know where to get started? Chris Hostetter (aka Hossman) is coming to Lucene Revolution in Boston October 7-8 to handle your toughest questions.
UPDATE: Details on how to submit your questions are now online.
August 9, 2010
| Tuesday, 24 August 2010 | ||
| 15:30 | to | 18:30 |
Lucid Imagination Authorized Partner Primeware SA presents an Executive Search Briefing, in São Paulo, 24 August 2010, 1930 local time, featuring Lucid Imagination CEO Eric Gries.
Join this exclusive event by RSVP only, by 18 August 2010.
Click here for details and registration.
August 3, 2010
ArnoldIT’s Beyond Search blog today features an interesting interview with one of our customers, Black Duck Software. There are a couple of cool things about Black Duck (besides their name, on which we’re in no position to comment).
First, its their core proposition of providing a practical code-level mechanism for managing the mix of software from multiple sources in a gigantic enterprise with zillions of lines of code. And today, more and more…
August 1, 2010
One of the great attractions of the style of open source collaboration one sees in Apache projects like Lucene/Solr is interaction with the committers who put the software together. If you’re a developer building an app with Lucene/Solr, the give-and-take on issues both with users and among the committers themselves, can be tremendously interesting and even solve problems for you.
It can also be a little challenging to translate the play-by-play action…