Podcasts
Brian Pinkerton talks to Pinar Gencturk of GlobalETM.com about how search is changing the face of enterprise information
Tune in for the latest on search and open source for the Enterprise Technology/IT Decision Makers. Brian Pinkerton, VP of Product Development at Lucid Imagination, talks to Pinar Gencturk of Global Enterprise Technology Management about how open source is changing the face of search technology -- and walks through the key benefits of LucidWorks Enterprise, the solution development platform that delivers the power of Apache Solr to business-critical search applications.
Authors' Podcast: Lucene in Action, Second Edition
Since its first publication in 2004 Lucene in Action has been the Bible for those wanting to learn more about Apache Lucene. Recently, Manning Publications the book's publisher has released a long awaited second edition of the book. With over 100 pages of new content, Lucene In Action Second Edition is and remains the definitive guide to effectively integrating the Lucene java libraries into your applications. The book details this mega-hit superfast search technology, Lucene's easy-to-use API, features like numeric fields, payloads, and near-real-time search capabilities and much more.
Now, listen in as Grant Ingersoll speaks with Lucene in Action co-authors, Mike McCandless Erik Hatcher, and Otis Gospodnetic, covering the book's goals, new material and new features, how the book can help search application developers working in Solr, and more.
Search — What’s in it for you?
By: ArnoldIT.com
The search and content processing sector is in transition, making for both an exciting and challenging time. Stephen E. Arnold from ArnoldIT.com, author of the first three editions of the Enterprise Search report, seeks answers from Kamran Khan (Search Technologies), Paul Doscher (Exalead), Marc Krellenstein (Lucid Imagination) and Jason Hunter (Mark Logic).
Click here to access the podcast (from globaletm.com)
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.
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.
Interview with Uwe Schindler
Grant Ingersoll speaks with Apache Lucene committer Uwe Schindler. Uwe talks about his work innovating the TRIE-range numeric query, its application to geographic and scientific search applications, frequent re-indexing.
Interview with Ian Holsman of Relegence (AOL)
Grant Ingersoll speaks with Lucene/Solr committer Ian Holsman, about the advantages of open source in the corporate context, performance optimizations in extracting database data, and a wide range of other search topics. Ian is CTO of Relegance, an AOL subsidiary, specializing in search-driven real-time news feeds.
Interview with Walter Underwood of Netflix
Grant Ingersoll [search on Grant] talks to Walter Underwood, Search Software Engineer of Netflix.
Get the "behind the scenes" tour on how Netflix optimizes their search, using Solr, to improve the customer experience using autocomplete, improved findability and other techniques for over two million searches per day. Walter discusses migrating to Solr, configuring for known data search, intuiting user behavior from log files, tuning autocompletion, debugging space variants, faceted browsing, and even how Netflix can help pick a good date movie.
"[W]hat’s interesting for me is that Solr brings out some things that were certainly possible in Lucene but maybe not so obvious. The per-field analyzers are really fantastic."
Interview with Karl Wettin on Lucene and Mahout
Grant Ingersoll [search on Grant] talks to Karl Wettin, an Apache Lucene and Mahout Committer and independent Lucene Solr consultant. Karl talks about lexically complex European languages, using terms with shingles to simplify queries rather than complex span queries, and improving spellchecking with reinforcement learning, and looking at Mahout NLP.