Finally, after long delays, Apache Solr version 1.4 is released. The long delay was mainly due to very strict quality standards, which made it necessary to wait until some serious known bugs were dealt with. Also read my previous article on what’s new in this version. Here is the official release statement:
Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for
public download! http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
Google har nettopp integrert musikk-søk, kalt “Google Discover Music“, inn i søkeresultatet (dessverre kun i USA så langt). Som partnere har Google imeem, lala, myspace (iLike), Pandora, Rhapsody samt de største plateselskapene, i sin streben etter å hjelpe oss brukere til å finne og lytte til musikk med bare et par klikk. Så mye 2 av top-10 søkene er musikk-relaterte, noe som antyder at mange leter etter musikk på Google allerede.
Google has just integrated music search, called “Google Discover Music“, into its search results – in US only so far. Partnering up with imeem, lala, myspace (iLike), Pandora, Rhapsody as well as the major music record labels, Google is striving to help users find and listen to music in just a few clicks. As much as 2 out of the top-10 searches are music related, which really suggests that many people are looking for music at Google.
Google “liknende bilder” søk er nå ute av beta (Cnet artikkel), og ser veldig lovende ut ved første test. Noe av problemet med tradisjonelt bilde-søk er at det baserer seg på at nøkkelord finnes enten i filnavnet eller i tekst på websiden der bildet finnes. Med denne nye funksjonen foregår det en ekte sammenlikning av
Google “similar images” search is now out of beta (Cnet article), and it looks very promising at first try. The problem with the traditional image search is that it relies on keywords to be found either in image filename or in the text surrounding the image on the web page. With the new feature, a