The Norwegian IT newspaper Digi.no today writes that CIA invests in Lucid Imagination through the company In-Q-Tel. This is a great confirmation that the Apache Lucene/Solr search engine is high-end software of key value also for intelligence use. That would come as no surpise to us who have followed Lucene for some time. And perhaps
Kvasir (www.kvasir.no) just released a new version of their search, which they have chosen to call “search 3.0”. This rises expectations high, so let’s investigate how they do…
The old kvasir was one of the most used web searches in Norway, but they never really managed to beat Google in popularity, so far. So what’s new in the new version of their search, and has this anything to do with “search 3.0”?Kvasir (www.kvasir.no) lanserte for noen uker siden en ny versjon av søket sitt, som de har valgt å markedsføre som “søk 3.0”. Dette setter forventninger høyt, så la oss se hva de har å by på…
Gamle Kvasir var en av norges mest brukte søk, men klarte vel aldri helt å konkurrere med Google, annet enn for gamle trofaste brukere. Så hva er nytt i den nye versjonen, og kan det virkelig kalles “søk 3.0”?
As a search specialist I appreciate proper search features, also on the smartphone. For those of us remembering the PalmPilot back in 2000, it had a wonderful global search option, bringing up results from all applications in one screen. Perfect! And now we get this on the iPhone. In iPhone OS 3.0 coming this summer,
The open source search server Solr from Apache Foundation has become a mature technology ready for prime-time. The recent editions has added features which previously were only found in commercial offerings, such as Automatic replication for large installations with distributed search Java-API (SolrJ) Conversion of Office-documents Full faceted search Advanced tokenization, highlighting and stemming Apache
Stallman in Oslo – Free as in “Fanatic”?
The legendary founder of Free Software Foundation (FSF), and initiator of GNU (Gnu is Not Unix), GPL and more, visited Oslo today. I attended his speech about Copyright at the University of Oslo, where a few hundred people were gathered to hear (and see) this strange looking and strange speaking man. This is indeed one
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