The first real FAST Search book

Book cover © Amazon & Wrox

Over due by several years, Wrox just published a book about Microsoft Enterprise Search, including the different FAST flavours. Bravo!

You can ask how all the users of FAST technology could have managed for so many years without some public source of learning the products. Up until now FAST/MS and their partners have been the sole source of learning FAST Search [1]. Now, we’re part of that eco-system and may have profited on the lack of material available, but that’s another story.

What happens to FAST ESP?

After the Microsoft takeover of FAST almost three years ago, it’s been silent and no new updates of ESP. We all know that MS discontinued Linux support, and that the major focus with the FAST technology has been to power the high-end search for Sharepoint 2010. ESP was forked and heavily modified to integrate smoothly with Windows, SQL server, AD, PowerShell and more, and it made the leap to 64 bit – finally!

But what about non Sharepoint users? MS has an offering to them as well, called FAST Search for Internet Sites. Read Comperio’s excellent blog article about it. A bit disappointing that the core is still the more than three year old ESP5.3 wrapped in new MS APIs, but cool that you can still hack the ESP internals..

Solr sammendrag Oktober

Vi fortsetter å gi deg sammendrag av hva som skjer på Solr fronten. Takk til Sematext for nok et bra referat. Funksjonalitet som er committet (lagt inn i kildekoden) Et vanlig problem noen hadde med highlighteren var ar q.alt ikke fungerte. Dette er nå rettet med Highlighter doesn’t support q.alt og er allerede committet til branch_3x

Solr sammendrag juli 2010

Som vanlig, er juli en av de tregere måneder i Solr verdenen, men vi klarte å finne noen interessante temaer: Interessante funksjonen kan legges til med Solr-1979 – Create LanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessor. Den vil gi mulighet til å håndtere tekst på ulike språk (tenk på stemming i analyse, for eksempel) ved å detektere språket automatisk. Denne issue er helt ny,