Apache Lucene Blog

The Two Flavors of Google
Nice article on Hadoop at Business Week and some good quotes from Lucene Java creator Doug Cutting.  Hadoop holds a lot of promise for the future of large scale computing, although I don’t want to burden it with that kind of claim, either.  In the end, it makes solving a good [...]

ApacheCon EU 2008
Schedule is out for ApacheCon Europe.  I will be doing my Lucene Boot Camp training and a Lucene Performance talk.  Erik Hatcher will also be doing a Solr Boot Camp and a Lucene/Solr talk.  There will also be some Hadoop talks.

Interesting comparison of open source search engines available at http://wrg.upf.edu/WRG/dctos/Middleton-Baeza.pdf.   While it reflects OK on Lucene (hey, we can’t be perfect at everything,) I am interested in finding out more details about what settings were used for indexing.  If they just used the out of the box settings, then I would argue that they need [...]