Deep Dive into Elasticsearch Cross Field Search
Crossing streams — problem. Crossing fields? No problem! Elasticsearch’s cross field queries are a great feature. They let you blend multiple fields scores together on a search-term by…
Debugging Solr 5 in Intellij
I recently had to debug Solr 5 to help answer some client questions. With Solr 5, there’s been several fundamental changes to the Lucene/Solr codebase. My previous methods of…
Experiments in Visualizing Lucene Index Structures
Bearded Wookie is here! A while ago someone asked me for a entity diagram for the Solr “database”. My first, and rather snarky, plan was to provide a single…
Build your own Custom Lucene query and scorer
Every now and then we’ll come across a search problem that can’t simply be solved with plain Solr relevancy. This usually means a customer knows exactly how documents should…
Build Your Own Lucene Codec!
A Lucene Codec, a bit twiddlers dream! Ive been having a lot of fun hacking on a Lucene Codec lately. My hope is to create a Lucene storage layer…
Search is Eating The World | Recap of Lucene Revolution
The team recently spent time at Lucene/Solr Revolution Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop…
Indexing Chinese in Solr
Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer to Project Blacklight…
OpenSource Connections Adds Site Search Analytics Service
At OpenSource Connections, we strongly believe that search is not simply a matter of installing a search engine, putting in a search box, and forgetting about it. Yet, thats…
Search Engine Testing and Apache Lucene Eurocon Oh My!
Eric Pugh got notified today that hes been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search…
Lessons from DI2E: Intelligence is About Search, Not Gathering
I just came back from the 2011 DI2E conference in Dallas, Texas and certainly left with a lot of impressions. I want to state up front that my impressions…
Scott Stults to Speak on Solr Security at the Solr and Text Analytics Conference
Were thrilled to announce that Scott Stults was presented to speak on the topic of Multi-Level Security (MLS) with Solr at the Open Source Search Conference: Lucene and Solr…