Hello Boston, My Old Friend
It all started in Boston… In 2010, for the inaugural Lucene Revolution in Boston MA, I tried to weasel out of giving a prepared talk by proposing a Live Q&A style session where I’d be put on the...
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News Search at Bloomberg
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Boston this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Solr Committer Ramkumar...
View ArticleNow Everybody Knows Their Names…
As previously mentioned: On October 13th, Lucene/Solr Revolution 2016 will once again be hosting “Stump The Chump” in which I (The Chump) will be answering tough Solr questions — submitted by users...
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Solr Distributed Indexing at WalmartLabs
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Boston this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Shenghua Wan’s talk, “Solr...
View ArticleBe A Winner In Boston: Stump The Chump Prizes
As previously mentioned: On October 13th (two weeks From tonight) I’ll be on the main stage at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2016 once again answering tough Solr questions — submitted by users like you —...
View ArticleTick Tock: Time Is Running out to Stump The Chump
Time Is Running Out! There’s only a few days left to submit your questions for Stump The Chump at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2016. If the panel of judges decide you’re question did the best job of...
View ArticleLucidworks Integrates IBM Watson into Fusion Enterprise Discovery Platform
We’re excited today to announce our new integration with IBM Watson! Lucidworks is tapping into the IBM Watson Developer Cloud platform for its Fusion platform, an application framework that helps...
View ArticleStump The Chump: Boston Winners
Last Thursday we had another great Stump The Chump session in Boston (followed by an awesome party at the top of the Prudential Building). Today I’m happy to announce the top 3 prize winners:...
View ArticleThe Twilight of the Vengine Gods (Die Göttervenginedämmerung) or Die Hard...
The term ‘Vengines’** is short for “Vendor Engines” – like HP Autonomy, Google Search Appliance, MS Fast and Oracle Endeca who as we speak are fading from the scene. Not that this is news to anyone who...
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Google/Amazon-like Search for Your Retail Site
When shopping online, today’s customers do not expect to put much effort into finding what they need. Effective search is the difference between a successful online retailer and ending up a parked...
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Using Word2Vec in Fusion for Better Search Results
Introduction The power to have a computer process information the same way a human does has countless applications, but the area in which it is possibly most important is search. The ability to...
View ArticleHoliday Viewing: Revolution 2016 Videos
We had an amazing time with the Solr community in Boston last month for Lucene/Solr Revolution 2016. Now that we’ve come down from the excitement and craziness of this year’s event, we are busy...
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Top Trends in Search for 2017
Search is changing. For the past few years search has become much more relevant. There was a time when savvy users had to scroll past the first few results habitually, when composing the right query...
View Article11 Common Mistakes in Search
Your company or organization is energized. Finally you’re going to provide an organization enterprise search solution or enhance your online retail customer experience! You get everyone onboard, make...
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Analyzing Enron with Solr, Spark, and Fusion
At Lucene/Solr Revolution this year I taught a course on using Big Data technologies with Apache Solr and by extension Lucidworks Fusion. As part of the course we ingested the Enron corpus as provided...
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2016: The Year In Review
It has been another whirlwind year in the world of search here at Lucidworks! First a few customer successes from the field: How Infoblox Moved from Google Search Appliance to Lucidworks Fusion in Just...
View ArticleFusion Working for You: A Custom RSS Crawler JavaScript Stage
One of the most powerful features of Fusion is the built-in JavaScript stage. However, you shouldn’t really think of this stage as merely JavaScript stage. Fusion uses the Nashorn JavaScript engine,...
View ArticleGenerating a Sitemap from a Solr Index
Our clients often ask if Solr supports generating a sitemap from an existing Solr Index. While Solr has a full-featured set of APIs, these interfaces are generally geared more towards providing a...
View ArticleContext Filtering with Solr Suggester
"Q: What did the Filter Query say to the Solr Suggester? Introduction The available literature on the Solr Suggester primarily centers on surface-level configuration and common use-cases. This article...
View ArticleExtracting Values from Element Attributes using Jsoup and a JavaScript Stage
While Fusion comes with built-in Jsoup selector functionality, it is limited in its extraction capability. If you want to do something like extract attribute values — in particular attribute values...
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