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Search Needs to Help Disprove Patent Trolls

There’s not really a setting in a search engine to make a disproving search versus a finding search. If there was, then many patent trolls would be uttering a long bellow of anguish and going back under the bridges where they were hiding.

0 replies - 1654 views - 02/09/12 by Jason Hull in Articles

Heroku, MongoDB, node.js – a problem

A couple facts about three cool technologies

1 replies - 3189 views - 01/30/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Graphite, JMXTrans, Ganglia, Logster, Collectd, say what?

Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked together. (Something which can be used as a starting point to improve stuff, and I have to write documentation...

0 replies - 2679 views - 01/26/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

The Story of Google Code Search and How it Worked

Although it went out of commission only a few days ago, Google Code Search was once the pet project of a team of Google interns in the Summer of 2006.  In an Official Google Blog entry from October 14, 2011, aptly titled "A fall sweep," Google...

0 replies - 3120 views - 01/23/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Powered by Lucene: IBM Content Analytics with Enterprise Research

See and hear how IBM applies Lucence into their commercial software offerings. Hear about experience in development and advantages of this...

0 replies - 1909 views - 01/21/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos

Have Your Say in the Name for the 2013 Eclipse Release

Last year it was Indigo, this year it will be Juno, and now the Eclipse community is voting on a name for the Eclipse release for June 2013. All you need to do is go to the poll, log in, and vote for your favorite name.  If you're familiar with Eclipse...

0 replies - 2183 views - 01/12/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Solr select query GET vs POST request

In most cases a GET request is used to send select queries to Solr. This is how it’s done in most examples, it’s easy to test in the browser and easy to implement. However, Solr also supports POST requests for select queries. This can for instance be...

0 replies - 2156 views - 01/10/12 by Bas De Nooijer in Articles

Personal gains from contributing to Open Source

Many may find it difficult to understand why certain people spend a lot of their spare time producing stuff without being paid and then give it away for free. Is this altruism on the edge of stupidity or are there personal benefits gained from...

0 replies - 2272 views - 01/10/12 by Kristoffer Sjögren in Articles

The Beautiful Marriage of MongoDB and Redis

I am on the record as being a MongoDB fan, admirer, and devotee. I never quite felt the same way about Redis, though. My friends would talk excitedly about Redis and I'd say, "But I have a perfectly good key value store in memcached and a perfectly...

0 replies - 3073 views - 01/09/12 by Cody Powell in Articles

Search Solutions 2011: Highlights and Reflections

In November I had the privilege of co-chairing the 5th Search Solutions conference, held at BCS London in Covent Garden. As in previous years we had an eclectic mix of presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and...

0 replies - 1990 views - 12/28/11 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Cassandra & Solr Integration in Virgil GUI

Up front, I'd like to say this is still pretty raw. We'd love to get feedback and contributions.That said, Virgil (a services layer and GUI on top of Cassandra) now has the ability to integrate SOLR and Cassandra. When you add and delete rows and columns...

0 replies - 2559 views - 12/15/11 by Brian Oneill in Articles

Solr 4.0: DocTransformers first look

In todays entry we will look at the next feature that will come with version 4.0 of Apache Solr. We will look at the functionality which enables us to modify the fields in Solr result lists.

0 replies - 2136 views - 12/13/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Two ways of using Redis to build a NoSQL autocomplete search index

Last week I demonstrated how to setup autocomplete in a new Rails 3.1 app using the Soulmate gem, from SeatGeek. Soulmate uses Redis to cache all of the autocomplete phrases in memory, providing lightning fast query results.

0 replies - 3252 views - 12/06/11 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles