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  • Relevancy Driven Development with Solr

    Robin Bramley, Consultant

    The relevancy of search engine results is very subjective so therefore testing the relevancy of queries is also subjective.One technique that exists in the information retrieval field is the use of judgement lists; an alternative approach discussed here is to follow the Behaviour Driven Development methodology employing user story acceptance criteria – I’ve been calling this Relevancy Driven Development or RDD for short.

  • Technical Support and Consultancy Packages

    For deployments that don't require time critical response and can conduct support through email. It provides 48 hour initial response time and one authorised contact per subscription. The basic subscription includes support for up to 5 servers running Lucene or Solr and 2 support incidents per month.

  • The Case for Lucene/Solr

    Sponsored by Lucid Imagination

    In today’s information-driven environment, search is a critical solution to problems when it slashes the time and effort separating end users from the data they value. Search spans the range of business models and use cases—from driving direct customer sales, to analytics and business intelligence, employee productivity, and reduced administrative overhead. Making the best use of search requires two perspectives: both a look at the business requirements for a search application and a view to new business opportunities created by using search to leverage the organization’s content resources.

  • The Golden Age of Open Source

    Steve Odart, Director

    I have already seen the change happen in the world of content management. As we came out of the summer of 2009, hard on the tail of a global economic meltdown, something changed in the take up of open source ECM in the blue chip arena of business. Our projects suddenly shifted from strategic, point solutions leveraging the open source model of Alfresco to become main stream, enterprise adoptions of Alfresco as a chosen, strategic enterprise content management platform across global corporations and organisations. Not just on one or two occasions, not just in one or two sectors, but across the board.

  • Sep 272011: Using Lucene in Grails

    Apache Lucene is the leading open source search engine and is used in many businesses, projects and products. Lucene has sub-projects which provide additional functionality such as the Nutch web crawler and the Solr search service. This article gives an introduction to Lucene, a tutorial on three Grails Lucene plugins and a comparison between them.

  • Why Lucid Imagination and Ixxus?

    The Lucene/Solr open source search technology is recognised as providing like for like enterprise search functionality alongside the leading proprietary enterprise search vendors such as: Microsoft (FAST Search & Transfer), Autonomy, Google and Endeca.

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