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The new Solr Lucene Zone features that same calibre of content focused directly on Apache Solr and Apache Lucene open source search technologies, along with the critical complements from around the ecosystem. Given its reach into a broad range of developer communities not yet directly involved in open source search, it represents a great opportunity for developers from all walks of technology to get their heads into the Lucene/Solr world. Its fresh, up-to-date format provides continuous visibility into new developments in the space, whether you’re new to Solr and Lucene or a well-traveled veteran.

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There are, of course, some good things to take into account no matter what the use case or environment, but in many ways, search application development is more like zoology than physics: there are an infinite variety of species, and close observation and analysis of the naturally diverse world rewards the effort.

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DataImportHandler uses it’s own config file to drive all of the behavior about where to find all of the “entities” that you wnat to index. There is an open bug about the fact that you have to specify this config file in some very peculiar ways (that are very different from how most things in solr work) otherwise it won’t work properly. I got bit by this bug by trying to specify my “config” property as an “invariant” param instead of a “default” (because it’s not something that i want anyone to try to change at request time. The result was an ever so confusing “DataImportHandler started. Not Initialized. No commands can be run” which went away once I did some digging and discovered that bug.

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Enterprise search is as much about the tools you use as the way users actually search. A new podcast with Brian Pinkerton, VP of Product Development at Lucid Imagination and Pinar Gencturk of Global Enterprise Technology Management covers how open source is changing the face of search technology — and walks through the key benefits of LucidWorks Enterprise, the solution development platform that delivers the power of Apache Solr to business-critical search applications.

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In many search applications, and ecommerce is no exception, users often abandon searches when the first page of results (often the top 10) are not relevant to their query. Thus, it is important that a search engine return good results on the first page. While some guidance (more on this in the coming sections) can help alleviate the abandonment problem, a strong first showing is often the quickest way to more clickthroughs. Since Solr utilizes Lucene, which implements an industry standard vector space approach to search, results are often quite good out of the box.

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A new article published on Java Lobby by Peter Karich does a fine job of aligning key resources in and around the community in a well-organized article that both introduces Solr and provides a great tour of online resources out there to help you learn the what and how.

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Lucid Imagination has the expertise, resources and services you need for cost-effective development and production deployment of LucidWorks Enterprise or Apache Lucene/Solr-based applications. Whether you are evaluating LucidWorks Enterprise or already working on Lucene/Solr-based applications, Lucid Imagination can help. We offer a full portfolio of service offerings to provide a solid commercial foundation for architecture, design, development, and deployment of search solutions built with Lucene and Solr.

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Take advantage of a flexible and customizable platform to extend your open source search capabilities to suit your unique needs and ideas

Tune your relevancy algorithms directly and enhance the experience of your visitors with advanced features such as faceted search navigation, local search, and boosting, to get your search users better, more relevant, results - and increase the return on your information assets

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Many people focus purely on the speed of search, often neglecting the quality of the results produced by the system. In most cases, people test out some small set of queries, eyeball the top five or ten and then declare the system good enough. In other cases, they have a suite of test queries to run, but they are at a loss for how to fix any issues that arise.

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With LucidWorks Enterprise, you have the foundation you need to tame the inevitable growth and change of the content for your search application. By lowering the cost of change and delivering unmatched Scalability, you can use this fast, flexible search solution development platform to build, maintain and grow your search application to make the most of your data.

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Combine cost-effective Lucene and Solr open source solutions plus world class service and support from Lucid Imagination, and you get a compelling alternative to costly, proprietary application software. The result: you connect your people with the information they need to make better decisions, increase productivity and drive business results.

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Solr is the Lucene search server; it transforms Lucene into an enterprise search platform. Like Lucene, which it contains, Apache Solr is free open source available under the liberal Apache Software License. Apache Solr provides the following capabilities

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Lucene is a Java-based search library available for free as open source under the liberal Apache Software License. This license allows users to modify or embed the technology as they see fit, and to keep proprietary, sell and/or re-distribute any resulting product. Apache Lucene is written entirely in Java, though there are today .NET and other versions available. Lucene has a large number of active contributors and thousands of installations, including production applications at AOL, Apple, CNET, Comcast Interactive Media, IBM, LinkedIn, Monster, MySpace, Netflix, Technorati and Wikipedia. Apache Lucene is full-featured and provides