Matt Pearce writes:
We have been working with a client who needs to search for documents based on location, either using a single point or (sometimes very) complex polygons. They supplied the location data in WKT format which we assumed we could feed directly into our search engine (in this case Solr) without any modifications being necessary.
Then we started testing the location se...
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It seems to be a bad summer for analyst companies in several sectors: here's Forrester getting a kicking from Digital Clarity Group about their Wave report on Digital Experience Delivery Platforms (my first challenge was understanding what on earth those are, but I think it's a new shiny name for web content management), Nuix Read more
The last few weeks have seen a rush of investment in companies that offer Hadoop-powered Big Data platforms - the most recent being Intel's investment in Cloudera, but Hortonworks has also snorted up $100m.
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At the end of next month I'll be at Enterprise Search Europe (I'm on the programme committee and help with the open source track) and the opening keynote this year is from Dale Roberts, author of the book Decision Sourcing. Dale will be talking about how Social, Big Data, Analytics and Enterprise Search are on a ...
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It's always fun to make predictions about the future, especially as one can be pretty sure to be proved wrong in interesting ways. At the start of 2014 we at Flax are looking forward to another year of building open source search and we already have some great client projects in progress that we'll shortly be able to talk about, but what else might be happening this year? Here's some points to note:
I've been lucky enough to attend two talks on Hadoop in the last few weeks which has made me take a closer look at this technology. In case you didn't know, Hadoop is an Apache top level open source project comprising a framework for distributed computing and storage, originally created by Doug Cutting (also the creator of Apache Lucene) while at Yahoo! in 2005. Distributed computing is carried out using Read more
As usual there's several interesting events on the horizon this autumn: first up is an London Elasticsearch User Group Meetup on Monday September 9th, which will probably be shortly followed by a Cambridge Search Meetup once I have confirmed a venue - we're hoping to include a talk on Solr & Read more
Roo Reynolds from the GDS team has written a great blog post about the ongoing process of tuning the search for gov.uk which I can highly recommend.
We regularly see situations where a search project has been set up as 'fire and forget' - which is never a good idea: not only does content grow, but use...
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Here's a quick roundup of search-related events coming soon:
Next week Lucene/Solr Revolution is to be held in San Diego, with a couple of days of training on April 29th & 30th and the main event on the 1st and 2nd May. This is probably the biggest event dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr and features a huge array of pr...
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I spent last night at a networking event organised by the Business Leaders Network on the subject of Open Source Business Models - this isn't the usual sort of event I attend, being held in a very posh law firm's offices overlooking the Thames and with some fellow attendees from venture capital firms and investment banks. Although the panel included speakers from Read more
