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Recreate The GitHub Search Box

In this tutorial we are going to recreate a slide out search box just like what you will find on Github. What's different about this search box is that...

0 replies - 2878 views - 04/25/13 by Paul Underwood in Articles

3 Principles for the Incredibly Exciting Future of Search

[Note: this post is adapted from a long comment I made on one of Albert Wenger’s recent posts] Albert, I think you’re absolutely right that the...

0 replies - 2635 views - 01/22/13 by George London in Articles

A First Failed Attempt at Natural Language Processing

One of the things I find fascinating about dating websites is that the profiles of people are almost identical so I thought it would be an interesting...

0 replies - 3069 views - 12/05/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Search Solutions 2012: Highlights and Reflections

It’s around this time of year that I re-acquaint myself with a familiar sequence of events: an initial period of doubt as to whether it’s all really worth...

0 replies - 1910 views - 12/05/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Lucene is Beautiful

So after I finished telling you how much I don’t like the Lucene.net codebase, what's this post about? Well, I don’t like the code, but then again, I...

0 replies - 4983 views - 10/05/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Lucene's New Analyzing Suggester

Live suggestions as you type into a search box, sometimes called suggest or autocomplete, is now a standard, essential search feature ever since Google set a...

0 replies - 3380 views - 10/03/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Big Search with Big Data Principles

Eric Pugh, a Principle at OpenSource Connections, will explain how you can practically apply some of the principles of Big Data to your search environment.Got...

0 replies - 4491 views - 06/06/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

How do You Measure the Impact of Tagging on Search Retrieval?

A client of mine wants to measure the difference between manual tagging and auto-classification on unstructured documents, focusing in particular on its...

1 replies - 3460 views - 05/30/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Solr Autcomplete, part 4 (Ngram and faceting)

In the previous parts of autocomplete series we presented two methods of autocomplete queries. Than we extended one of those with the ability to define...

1 replies - 5066 views - 05/29/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Search is Not Enough: Using Solr for Analytics

We've got our first video recording out of Lucene Revolution 2012.  This year was even bigger than the previous two, with even more focus on massive data...

1 replies - 4926 views - 05/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Designing Search (Part 4): Displaying Results

In an earlier post we reviewed the various ways in which an information need may be articulated, focusing on its expression via some form of query. In this...

0 replies - 6203 views - 05/16/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Beginners Guide: Improving Search Indexes for Better Performance

As you know one of the most important techniques when designing your database schema or your searching enabled systems is the selection and creation of...

0 replies - 3402 views - 05/14/12 by Carlo Scarioni in Articles

Analyzing Search Results for Fun and Profit

In a previous post, we looked at the first two components of the success of search: the density of highlighted search terms and the placement within the...

0 replies - 3908 views - 04/23/12 by Jason Hull in Articles

LWE 2.1 Adds Support for Drools + Crawler Scheduling

We know streamlined search utility building is a major need in the tech industry right now.  Amazon's recent Cloud Search announcement is evidence of that. ...

0 replies - 3651 views - 04/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The Dimentions of Search UX

Or “Why Google Instant will (and won’t) change the way we search” Google Instant has caused considerable debate within the search community. Some...

0 replies - 5032 views - 04/19/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles