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Cominvent pioneers Solr Training in Scandinavia

Jan 20, 2010janhoyJava, Open Source, Search technology, Solr, Technologyapache, clustering, course, enterprise search, Java, lucene, Lucid, Open Source, search, Solr, training

Cominvent is the first company in Scandinavia to offer professional classroom training for the Open Source search engine Apache Solr. Last week we conducted a training in Denmark, and we plan for a regular schedule in Oslo and on-demand elsewhere in Europe.

Solr does GEO search

Nov 20, 2009janhoy1 CommentOpen Source, Search technology, Solr, TechnologyGEO, geospatial, local search, lucene, search, Solr

Apache Solr is a very capable enterprise search platform, doing most things you would expect from such a solution. But what about GEO sensitive applications like Yellow-pages, maps search, sort by distance to X etc? The big commercial systems such as FAST, Autonomy and Endecca, have it but Apache Lucene/Solr does not seem to support GEO search, or what?

Apache Solr 1.4 finally released

Nov 11, 2009janhoyOpen Source, Search technology, Solrapache, enterprise search, excel, faceting, lucene, nested queries, ODF, office, Open Source, pdf, range queries, search, Solr, solr 1.4, tika, word

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/

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Solr being used by Google’s allforgood.org

Aug 29, 2009janhoy1 CommentOpen Source, Search technology, Solr, Technologycharity, crawling, Google, Open Source, real-time, search, Solr

Google runs a web page called AllForGood which helps people find opportunities to volunteer in various organizations in their neighbourhood. In the beginning, the search in the site was updated from Google’s crawlers crawling several volunteer webpages. However, when designing a tighter integrated, more real-time search, they turned to Apache Solr. On their blog they

New Solr book

Aug 18, 2009janhoyOpen Source, Search technology, Solr, Technologyapache, book, lucene, search, Solr, solr 1.4

Some people are perhaps more comfortable learning through a book than through Wiki pages and README files. For years we’ve had books about Lucene, and now comes the first book about Apache Solr as well, titled Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server. The book is written by David Smiley and Eric Pugh and is available for

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