HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…
At OpenSource Connections, we focus on solving the search problems that others face. One of the problems that we have noticed is that tools for U.S. government acquisition officers…
When a user enters in a search query and is taken to a search engine results page, then the probability of clicking on a result is a function of…
Do you like Solr? Live in Las Vegas? Are you going to be in Vegas on Wednesday, February 22, 2012? Like free dinner? If this sounds like you, then…
As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered…
Richer presentation. Deeper data in search results. Search UIs are getting richer and more interesting by the day. Google page snapshots, animated disclosures of richer data on mouse over,…
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…
We are pleased to announce that Eric Pugh and David Smiley have published the second Solr book in publication, Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server. It is an update…
Unless you have a very well-known brand where people type your URL to visit your site, then chances are that most of your traffic comes from an external search…
Yesterday, Netflix announced the separation of its DVD-by-mail division into a new entity called Qwikster. The new company will have a separate website and focus entirely on mail delivery…
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…
On August 15, OpenSource Connections, along with Lucid Imagination and SAIC, are hosting the inaugural Charlottesville Solr/Lucene Meetup at SAICs office in the UVa Research Park. It will be…