Tag Archives: search

FAST to abandon Linux and Unix

Posted on 2010-02-08 by janhoy

In a recent blog post by CTO Bjørn Olstad, referenced by CNet, Beyond Search and Norwegian digi.no today, FAST announces that ESP 5.3 is the last version of their Enterprise Search Platform to run on Linux or Unix. As a … Continue reading →

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Cominvent pioneers Solr Training in Scandinavia

Posted on 2010-01-20 by janhoy

Cominvent is the first company in Scandinavia to offer professional classroom training for the Open Source search engine Apache Solr. Last week we conducted a training in Denmark, and we plan for a regular schedule in Oslo and on-demand elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Solr does GEO search

Posted on 2009-11-20 by janhoy

Apache Solr is a very capable enterprise search platform, doing most things you would expect from such a solution. But what about GEO sensitive applications like Yellow-pages, maps search, sort by distance to X etc? The big commercial systems such … Continue reading →

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Apache Solr 1.4 finally released

Posted on 2009-11-11 by janhoy

Finally, after long delays, Apache Solr version 1.4 is released. The long delay was mainly due to very strict quality standards, which made it necessary to wait until some serious known bugs were dealt with. Also read my previous article … 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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