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Benchmarking the new Solr ‘Near Realtime’ Improvements.

I’ve been working on integrating Solr into the Lucene benchmark module, and I’ve gotten the code to the point of...
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Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #10: Tweaking Relevancy

This is part 10 in a (never ending?) series of articles on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr....
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A practical approach to Boosting Documents with Solr/Lucene

By definition, document boosting is anything but a “one size fits all” phenomenon, observes Tim Potter of National Renewable Energy...
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They type it how? Difficulties in Japanese spell-check

The first part of Takahiko Ito's talk on Day 2 of Lucene Revolution was interesting, but the second half introduced...
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AT&T: Solr as middleware

I've been doing a lot of talking about how search is about more than finding data; it's about understanding it....
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Search analytics: a window into how users actually search

Sometimes the best way to explain what something is involves first discussing what it is not, and that’s the tack...
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Integrating Advanced Text Analytics into Solr/Lucene

“Metadata is king!” Thus proclaimed Steve Kearns of Basis Technology, Platinum Sponsor of Lucene Revolution, at the start of this...
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More like this: from semantics to new business model

It wasn't the biggest lesson learned from Alberto Mijares' talk on Day 2 of Lucene Revolution, but the notion that...
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Solr and law enforcement: highly relevant results can be a crime

Imagine that you have to integrate and search data from 200 different sources, each of which uses a different structure...
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The once and future history of open source and enterprise search

Lucid Imagination founder Marc Krellenstein kicked off the Lucene Revolution yesterday with a keynote address covering the history of search....
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Simon Willnauer, Column Stride Fields or DocValues, and improving on FieldCache

I'm a web application developer. I am not going to pretend that I understood everything that Simon Willnauer was saying...
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Search for first responders: Interview with Forensic Logic CTO Ron Mayer

Search has certainly played a prominent role in national security, with much discussion across many channels on the information frontier,...
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