The new search system is not based on GSA at all, but rather on SOLR/Lucene, which will cost the Lab much less money to maintain. This past week or so has seen a whole lot of new and interesting things happen in relation to Second Life.
Edition offers the ability to separate content into different searchable document collections, an improved administration console, and enhanced search support based on the latest open source Lucene indexing library.
For developers, the project presents a programming challenge that will help both Wikia and the open source communities around search applications like Nutch and Lucene, which Wikia will incorporate into its search engine.
College Basketball Lucene, Hadoop and Nutch. SES: Forward Planning + Top Stories + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + Daily SearchCast: Search News Via Podcast + Our Search Newsletters Welcome Big Daddy Index - Over the past month or so...
Doug will most likely continue working from home on his open source projects; Lucene, Hadoop and Nutch. Jeremy Zawodny notes that Doug Cutting, who has been working at Yahoo for four-years as an independent contractor, as now signed on with Yahoo...
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Lucene is a popular, open-source search engine that's freely available for anyone to download and use. Lucene is a basic platform, and because it's written in Java it's highly extensible and can be adapted to many purposes.
Apache, the open source web server group, has adopted Lucene and maintains a current support site called the Apache Jakarta Project (this is where you'll download the code if you want to actually play around with Lucene yourself).
Use Lucene as a Web site search engine. Sidesearch is a browser plug in for Internet explorer that runs whenever you enter a query into a major search engine. Lycos results are displayed in a panel on the left side of the browser window, allowing...
