24 Jul
Foursquare feed mashup with Google Maps
Map that shows my recent checkins on foursquare on google maps.
Author Archive
18 Jun
Velcro and iPad - High Utility Value (Velcro ofcourse)
iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
10 Feb
Elastic Search - Distributed and Highly Available Search Engine
Here are the requirements:
“So, we build a web site or an application and want to add search to it, and then it hits us: getting search working is hard. We want our search solution to be fast, we want a painless setup and a completely free search schema, we want to be able to index data simply using JSON over HTTP, we want our search server to be always available, we want to be able to start with one machine and scale to hundreds, we want real-time search, we want simple multi-tenancy, and we want a solution that is built for the cloud”
check it out - Elastic Search
07 Feb
Competitive Intelligence - Yelp
29 million unique visitors a month
Almost half of Yelp’s users (46 percent) are between 18-34 years old, while 36 percent are between 35-49.
Reviews
- Restaurants currently make up 29 percent of reviews
- shopping currently makes up 23 percent
- beauty and fitness (9 percent
- arts & entertainment (8 percent)
- home and local services (7 percent)
- entertainment (5 percent)
- nightlife (4 percent).
Source: KelseyGroup
07 Feb
Google’s LBC Ad for Local Businesses
Google being aggresive about attracting local businesses to update their listings and becoming the hub for local search.
20 Dec
Performance by Design - Shopzilla
Presentation by Shopzilla folks on their re-architecture and how they improved performance
Shopzilla - Performance By Design
View more presentations from Shopzilla.
Posted via web from Sameer’s posterous
16 Dec
Faster Highlighting in Solr for Large Documents
Kelvin's hacked up version of faster highlighting for Solr 1.4 using Lucene's FastVectorHighlighter.
Though … could locate the code 
Posted via email from Sameer’s posterous
12 Dec
Moving from FAST to Solr
Bumped into this document on the web about moving two big complex collections of search documents from FAST to Solr, the problems encountered during the move, and how they were tackled.
Moving from FAST to SolrPosted via email from Sameer’s posterous
02 Dec
Slides for Local Search using Solr Webinar
Fianlly got around to posting my slides that I used for the Geospatical / Local Search Webinar that was sponsored by Lucid and hosted by TheServerSide
