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Using A Query Classifier To Dynamically Boost Solr Ranking
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Las Vegas next month, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Target’s Howard Wan’s...
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PlayStation and Lucene: Indexing 1M Docs per Second on 18 Servers
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Las Vegas next month, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Sony Interactive...
View ArticleFusion and JavaScript: Shared Scripts, Utility Functions and Unit Tests
Overview Lucidworks Fusion uses a data pipeline paradigm for both data ingestion (Index Pipelines) and for search (Query Pipelines). A Pipeline consists of one or more ordered Pipeline Stages. Each...
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Fourth Annual Solr Developer Survey
It’s that time of the year again – time for our fourth annual survey of the Solr marketplace and ecosystem. Every day, we hear from organizations looking to hire Solr talent. Recruiters want to know...
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ML Model Training and Prediction Using Lucidworks Fusion
In this post, I show you how to train a machine learning model and use it for generating predictions on documents in Fusion 3.1. To keep things simple, I chose to use the “hello world” of machine...
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Evolving the Optimal Relevancy Scoring Model at Dice.com
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Las Vegas next month, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Dice.com’s Simon Hughes’...
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The Search for Search at Reddit
Today, Reddit announced their new search for ‘the front page of the internet’ built with Lucidworks Fusion. Started back in the halcyon Web 2.0 days of 2005, Reddit has become the fourth most popular...
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Solr Payloads
Before we delve into the technical details, what’s the big picture? What real-world challenges are made better with these new Solr capabilities? Here’s some use cases where payloads can help:...
View ArticleApache Solr 7 Ready for Download
While we lived it up in Vegas at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2017, the Lucene PMC announced the release of Apache Solr 7.0.0. Download. Here’s a webinar walking though what’s new in Solr 7. From the release...
View ArticleWhy Facets are Even More Fascinating than you Might Have Thought
I just got back from an another incredible Lucene/Solr Revolution, this year in Sin City (aka Las Vegas) Nevada. The problem is that there were so many good talks, that I now can’t wait for the video...
View ArticleSegment Merging, Deleted Documents and Why Optimize May Be Bad For You
Solr merge policy and deleted docs During indexing, whenever a document is deleted or updated, it’s not really removed from the index immediately, it’s just “marked as deleted” in its original segment....
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7 Search-Related Halloween Horrors
I’m not saying that your search platform is bad if it doesn’t fully address these issues… I’m saying it is horrifying! I’m saying you should dress it up on Halloween and put it in your yard to scare...
View ArticleWhere did all the Librarians go?
Saw this in Cyberspace somewhere: “I hate people who don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”. There so stupid!!” You’ve probably gotten tired of me by now, that’s OK because I’m tired of...
View ArticleCaching, and Filters, and Post-Filters, Oh My!
A while back, I joined the #solr IRC channel in the middle of conversation about Solr’s queryResultCache & filterCache. The first message I saw was… < victori:#solr> anyway, are filter...
View ArticleHow Solr and Fusion Can Solve American Airlines’ Scheduling Snafu
Recently, American Airlines scheduled too many pilots off during the holiday season. This may surprise you but this too is a “search” problem. Understanding the Technical Domain If you visualize this...
View ArticleStreaming Expressions in SolrJ
Here at Lucidworks we recently had an “exciting” adventure. A client wanted to access Streaming Expression functionality through SolrJ. This turned out to be more challenging than we expected so we...
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7 Predictions for Search in 2018
It wasn’t long ago that search technology was stagnant. The hard problems back then were data connectivity and import. Search teams might still struggle with these challenges for specific projects, but...
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Looking Back at Search in 2017
2017 was a big year in search technology. As we chronicled last month in our rundown of trends for 2018, search technology has moved far beyond just keywords, faceting, and scale. But let’s take a look...
View ArticleHow to Handle Meltdown and Spectre for Solr
Recent news reports have revealed that most Intel processors are vulnerable to a security flaw that allows processes to read the memory of other processes running on the same Intel CPU. At this time it...
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Keeping Retail Sites Up 24x7x365
In a global economy there is no downtime. Even for national or local retailers, downtime has become a thing of the past. People buy at odd hours. Customers who have a bad experience have other options...
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