Webinars & Events
Recent Webinars
Findability: Designing the Search Experience
Join special guest Tyler Tate, user experience designer at UK-based TwigKit Search, for a high-level discussion of key user interface strategies for search that can be leveraged with Lucene and Solr. The presentation covers:
- Ten things to know about designing the search experience
- When to assume users know what they’re looking for — and when not to
- Navigation/discovery techniques, such as faceted navigation, tag clouds, histograms and more
- Practical considerations in leveraging suggestions into search interactions
Mastering the Lucene Index: Post-processing. Performance. Results.
Lucene is at the heart of open source search: the index is at the heart of Lucene.
Lucene/Solr index implementation is critical to the performance of your search application and the quality of your results — and not just at indexing time. If you're developing applications in Lucene/Solr, your index will reward care and attention — adding power to your running search application — all the more so as you inevitably increase the scope of your query traffic and the dimensions of your data.
Introduction to Solr for the Enterprise, with Grant Ingersoll
Solr is the Lucene search server. It presents a web service layer built atop the Lucene search library, extending it to provide application users with a ready-to-use search platform. Solr brings with it operational and administrative capabilities like web services, faceting, configurable schema, caching, replication, and administrative tools for configuration, data loading, statistics, logging, cache management, and more.
Cutting Search Chaos: Faster Findability for Lucene/Solr
Smartlogic, makers of Semaphore, have partnered with Lucid Imagination to cut through chaos for better findability. Smartlogic Semaphore adds a layer of findability on top of native Lucene/Solr's search, along with a rich set of APIs, enhancing content metadata using automated classification for dramatically better search results and improved navigation. Join Smartlogic's Toby Conrad and Lucid Imagination's Tom Hill for a detailed debrief on how combining Semaphore with Lucene/Solr turns a good search engine into the platform for compelling, intuitive search applications.