Category Archives: Technology

Google competes with iTunes

Posted on 2009-10-30 by janhoy

Google has just integrated music search, called “Google Discover Music“, into its search results – in US only so far. Partnering up with imeem, lala, myspace (iLike), Pandora, Rhapsody as well as the major music record labels, Google is striving … Continue reading →

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Google introduces similar images search

Posted on 2009-10-28 by janhoy

Google “similar images” search is now out of beta (Cnet article), and it looks very promising at first try. The problem with the traditional image search is that it relies on keywords to be found either in image filename or … Continue reading →

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Solr being used by Google’s allforgood.org

Posted on 2009-08-29 by janhoy

Google runs a web page called AllForGood which helps people find opportunities to volunteer in various organizations in their neighbourhood. In the beginning, the search in the site was updated from Google’s crawlers crawling several volunteer webpages. However, when designing … Continue reading →

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New Solr book

Posted on 2009-08-18 by janhoy

Some people are perhaps more comfortable learning through a book than through Wiki pages and README files. For years we’ve had books about Lucene, and now comes the first book about Apache Solr as well, titled Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search … Continue reading →

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CIA to invest in Lucid Imagination

Posted on 2009-06-24 by janhoy

The Norwegian IT newspaper Digi.no today writes that CIA invests in Lucid Imagination through the company In-Q-Tel. This is a great confirmation that the Apache Lucene/Solr search engine is high-end software of key value also for intelligence use. That would … Continue reading →

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