Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Finally back in the saddle from SXSW, where a good time was had by all, AFAICT.  It was my first time, so it was a bit overwhelming.  So many people, so much hype, so much to do and see.  Suffice it to say, most of the hype was about social media.  Can you say Bubble?  [...]

Trends: Interest in Lucene continues to accelerate Interesting take on Lucene adoption: job ads for Lucene (and Solr) are on the rise.  I can personally attest to this as well, as the the volume from recruiters hitting me up has definitely picked up in recent months. Although it really isn’t a surprise to those of [...]

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.  [...]

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.

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 [...]

Copying TREC is the Wrong Track for the Enterprise | The Noisy Channel. Daniel Tunkelang has written up an interesting post on the new Open Relevance Project that me and a few other Lucene people are starting up and I thought I would respond here: Little late to the conversation, but I think maybe we [...]

Seems to be a flurry of release activity in Lucene these days: Lucene Java just released 2.4.1 Nutch is in the process of releasing 1.0 Mahout is working 0.1 Solr 1.4 can’t be too far behind, I hope Good things are happening!

There will be several Lucene related events at ApacheCon Europe this year: Lucene Boot Camp – A two day training session, March 23 & 24th Solr Boot Camp – A one day training session, March 24th Introducing Apache Mahout – Grant Ingersoll. March 25th @ 10:30 Lucene/Solr Case Studies – Erik Hatcher. March 25th @ [...]

[#LUCENE-1313] Ocean Realtime Search – ASF JIRA Jason Rutherglen has been up to some interesting things with Lucene lately concerning real time search.  This has always been one of those parts of Lucene that has been needed over time by some people, but has never reached the critical mass whereby someone tackles it.  Looks like [...]