Lucene / Solr still needs hackers to get up and running

Just read an article posted on the Lucene blog - “Lucene and the Corporate Environment”
If the list of companies using Lucene are not “corporate” environments, then I don’t know what corporate means. If by corporate packaging, you mean it has a lot of bloat and charges exorbitant license fees, then no, unfortunately, Lucene [...]

How to influence the query plan in Lucene / Solr?

I was looking through Luence’s source code today (okay - night) to find whether you could provide hints to Lucene to change the clause precedence during query execution. Unfortunately, I found that Lucene does not support users to supply any such hint (I was looking at ConjunctionScorer).
At work, we have a use case, where we [...]

Solr/Lucene Feature Alert: TrieRange Capabilities

Are you doing range searches in Lucene / Solr in your application? If so, you can get performance boost by using the new TrieRange package.
Here is a ppt that details the capability.
If you want to read more, you can read the article posted by Grant on Lucid’s site.

Providing Search in Django based applications

I have seen many Django based applications that do not provide intuitive and powerful search capabilities to their users. If you pickup a product created in django and try to do a search, you will be disappointed by the fact that the search is so primitive. No spelling correction, no fuzzy searching, no complex multi-field [...]

Solr 1.3 comes with Search enhancements

Grant Ingersoll has published a new article on IBM developer works that talks about new features in Solr 1.3.

“Did you mean” Spellchecking
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Editorial results placement - Ability to specify that a particular document (or documents) appear at a particular place in the search results.
Distributed Search - Solr adds distributed search capabilities [...]