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The Lucene Revolution in Enterprise Social Media

We have written elsewhere on any number of occasions about to virtuous cycle of Lucene/Solr open source search and social media. It should come as no surprise, given the enabling attributes of search in today’s landscape, where data created and exchanged ... Read >

A day at the museum with Solr

When it comes to new ways to searching old things, it’s hard to beat the museum and library space. Close observers of the search space, of course, have seen this insight pop up on our site, whether in presentations from Lucene Revolution, some of the real... Read >

Solr open source search framework

Highlights Lucid Imagination helped a large not-for-profit research institute streamline and standardize their Solr search implementation with: On-site benchmark and analysis of Solr search framework and custom code modules Best practices recommendati... Read >

Comcast Chooses Solr For New Entertainment Search Platform

Introduction 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... Read >

Online Auto Site uses Solr to find revenue

Overview An automotive search and information services company has over a dozen Web properties, each targeted at a different of segment of cars and drivers. Sites operated by the company variously help consumers find the cars they need, compare prices an... Read >

Crawling in Open Source, Part 1

Introduction In this article I will give you a short introduction to crawling in general and then move on to Apache Nutch, its history, and architecture, and explanations of its core processing steps and MapReduce functions at a very technical level. Aft... Read >