Sponsorised links
This year
MichaelMoore.com | Concentric Sky
by karlcow
With such a large amount of content, searchability was essential. For this we built a custom technology stack based on Solr, Lucene and Haystack. Then, to keep all the previous links pointing in the right direction, we created a customizable scheme of Django regular expressions and Apache mod_rewrites.
zoie - Project Hosting on Google Code
by karlcow
Zoie is a real-time search and indexing system built on Apache Lucene. In a real-time search/indexing system, a document is made available as soon as it is added to the index. This functionality is especially important to time-sensitive information such as news, job openings, tweets etc.
Searchable: Annotation-Driven Indexing and Searching with Lucene :: Drive-by Digressions
by karlcow
Searchable is a toolkit for Lucene that harnesses the power of annotations to specify what properties to index and how to treat them.
SIREn: Semantic Information Retrieval Engine
by parmentierf
SIREn - Semantic Information Retrieval Engine - a Lucene plugin to overcome these shortcomings and efficiently index and query RDF, as well as any textual document with an arbitrary amount of metadata fields.
SRW/U [OCLC - Software]
by parmentierf
The SRW/U Open Source project offers software that implements both the SRW Web Service and the SRU REST model interface to databases. Included are interfaces that support DSpace's Lucene implementation and OCLC's Pears and Newton databases.
Sponsorised links
2008
2007
Premature Optimization » Zend_Search_Lucene talk slides
by parmentierf
& 1 other
(via)
I think that my main goal, which was to show how easy it is to start indexing existing content, was acheived and several people came to me and said they thing Zend_Search_Lucene is one killer component.
ONJava.com -- Using the Lucene Query Parser Without Lucene
by parmentierf
(via)
Stop creating sophisticated search forms. You can use technologies like Ajax to give you the power of creating user friendly interfaces; use ideas like "suggest" or "type ahead"; and create a simpler interface so your users won't feel lost in a huge set of search options. Remember, all users want is to quickly find the information they are looking for. You may stop creating sophisticated and hard-to-maintain search forms, instead providing searches based on Lucene query syntax. You could satisfy your users with a simple search field, as Google does
