Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination

Who's Using Lucene/Solr

Stubhub is the world's largest ticket marketplace, using Solr and Lucene for fans buying and selling tickets for tens of thousands of sports, concert, theater and other live entertainment events. more
Business Use Case Study: Migrating from Google Search Appliance to Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search with The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool's award-winning website, Fool.com, publishes hundreds of articles each week, with over four million unique visitors and 11 million sessions per month. They chose to replace their Google Search Appliance with Solr -- and hired Lucid Imagination to ensure successful implementation. “Lucene and Solr can definitely do what any commercial or proprietary search tool can do - certainly as well, or better, “ says Chad Wolfsheimer, VP of Technical Operations, Fool.com.
Linked In uses Lucene to find the right professional connections across over 30 million registered users to put social networking to work. more
If the shoe fits, Zappos has it, with 20% of the $3B online footwear market. Solr's faceting lets Zappos make it easy to find the shoes you want. more
MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, uses Apache Solr to power search and data-access services for a number of their digital properties both domestically and internationally.
Lucene powers Monster.com, the world’s largest job search engine, matching 1 million+ simultaneous job postings, 150 million resumes and 63 million job seekers each month.more
Millions of Netflix subscribers use Solr every day to find just the right movie from over 100,000 titles. more
whitehouse.gov, the official website of The White House, is embracing open source technology and now features a Solr-powered search on the site. Using Drupal, the Open Source content management platform, whitehouse.gov benefits from the Solr site search functionality built in to Drupal.
Yelp is the leading US local guide for real word of mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. With over 25 million users, Yelp uses Lucene to search across over 7 million local reviews of local businesses and services spaning 28 cities.
Case Study: Comcast Chooses Solr For New Entertainment Search Platform

Comcast Corporation is one of the largest providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services, with over 24 million cable customers, 15 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million phone customers. Its Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) division is chartered to develop and grow the company's Internet businesses. CIM’s Fancast.com–an extensive on-line video collection of television shows, movies, trailers and clips–gets over 10 million unique users per month. Users can browse and search across the site’s 4M+ content items to find the entertainment they want.

Who Are We?

We're the commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source search technology. Our products and services can help you develop and deploy search solutions with confidence: professional training, SLA-based support subscriptions; best practices consulting; free certified distributions of Lucene and Solr; and value-add software.

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Feb 15, 2010
Training Class: Introduction to Search Development with Solr
Mar 4, 2010
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