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 [...]

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: [...]

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.

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LinkedIn Search Insights

Here’s a presentation from SD-Forum by LinkedIn folks.
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Performance by Design - Shopzilla

Presentation by Shopzilla folks on their re-architecture and how they improved performance
 
 
Shopzilla - Performance By Design
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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
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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 Solr
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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

UIMA and GATE Applications over Hadoop

There is a new project on google code called Behemoth that utilizes Hadoop to achieve scale for GATE and UIMA applications. Here is a more detailed post from Julien:
"Behemoth allows to deploy GATE or UIMA applications over a Hadoop cluster in order to do very large scale document analysis. It uses a very simple [...]

Continuous Development - That’s the way it’s done

A presentation by Timothy Fitz on Continuous Development
Continuous Deployment
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