With Lucene/Solr you can:
Iterate new changes quickly at a low cost of experimentation using open source software, with no licensing issues
Take advantage of a flexible and customizable platform to extend your open source search capabilities to suit your unique needs and ideas
Tune your relevancy algorithms directly and enhance the experience of your visitors with advanced features such as faceted search navigation, local search, and boosting, to get your search users better, more relevant, results - and increase the return on your information assets
Use LucidGaze to monitor search and query performance, analyze performance attributes, and optimize for better search efficiency, to monitor and analyze your open source search traffic
Leverage the many add-on tools and applications in the Apache Lucene and Solr ecosystem
Use the on-going enhancements developed by the rich Lucene/Solr community, such as spatial search and capabilities for cloud computing
If you need assistance with early stage architectural design and configuration, or with tuning your existing Lucene/Solr environment, Lucid Imagination software and services solutions can help you turn your ideas into production implementations, delivering productivity, flexibility, and competitive advantage.