Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Lucid Imagination » Lucid Gaze for Lucene. Lucid Gaze for Lucene is a drop in replacement for the Apache Lucene jars that can be used to monitor Lucene application internals without having to recompile or change the code.

My Podcast with Digg.com Sr. Software Engineer Sammy Yu was just posted on Lucid’s website: Grant Ingersoll Talks with Sammy Yu | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination

Lucid Imagination » Webinar: Get Started Faster, Get Better Results Still not too late to sign up.  Got a good crowd already, but the more the merrier.

Joining Cloudera « Free Search Doug joining Cloudera.  Best of luck to Doug!

I will be giving a webinar on Apache  Solr on Thursday.  Here’s the copy: Find what you’re looking for? Use LucidWorks for Solr to quickly build faster, smarter search applications that go from “Searched” to “Found!” Open source Solr/Lucene gives you the power to turn a wide range of information into fast, useful, relevant results! [...]

I just posted a brief intro on getting started with Apache Lucene payloads on Lucid’s blog for those who are interested.  Here’s the teaser: Like Spans, payloads involve the position of terms, but go one step further. Namely, a Payload in Apache Lucene is an arbitrary byte array stored at a specific position (i.e. a [...]

My most recent podcast is now posted: Interview with Uwe Schindler | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.  Uwe and I had an enjoyable talk about geo-spatial search (seems like a lot of people are doing that these days), better numeric support in Lucene and Solr and other search problems. [...]