Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Interview with Ian Holsman of Relegence | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.
Had a really a great conversation with Ian about AOL/Relegence’s use of Solr.  Topics range from technical details to business level discussions.   Really cool to hear how Solr is powering a large amount of AOL’s search capabilities.  Tens [...]

Welcome to the Open Relevance Project!.
I finally got around to putting the Open Relevance Project website up.  Click the link above to check it out.  Be forewarned, it is barebones.  Patches welcome, although I suspect most of the work will be on the Wiki once the ASF infrastructure gets that setup.

It’s been a while since I’ve said much about Mahout, but it seems like things are trending upwards. From a subjective standpoint, it just feels like there is more going on both on mahout-user@lucene.a.o and mahout-dev@lucene.a.o. It also feels like people are starting to kick the tires, which is vital.  Furthermore,  it also [...]

A short high level piece that I did with CIOZone.com on Lucene/Solr and Lucid is available at CIOZone.com – Professional Network for CIOs and IT Professionals.

Just wanted to follow up on last night’s Lucene/Solr Meetup in San Francisco.
First off, special thanks to all the speakers (Jason Rutherglen, Michael Busch, Erik Hatcher and all the lightning talks.)  We had a lot of excellent talks ranging from low level Lucene details on payloads and real time search to high level discussions on [...]