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Lucene's facet module, as I described previously , provides a powerful implementation of faceted search for Lucene. There's been a ...

We know Lucene's near-real-time search is very fast : you can easily refresh your searcher once per second, even at high indexing rates,...

There's a new exciting book just published from Manning , with the catchy title Taming Text , by Grant S. Ingersoll (fellow Apache Lucen...

Robert has created an exciting new highlighter for Lucene, PostingsHighlighter , our third highlighter implementation ( Highlighter and ...

These days faceted search and navigation is common and users have come to expect and rely upon it. Lucene's facet module, first appe...

When I last tested Lucene with the Zing JVM the results were impressive : Zing's fully concurrent C4 garbage collector had very low pa...

Live suggestions as you type into a search box, sometimes called suggest or autocomplete, is now a standard, essential search feature ever s...

Another summer wraps up, another successful Google Summer of Code project finished in Apache Lucene! We had two projects this summer; h...

Google's entire index has been in RAM for at least 5 years now. Why not do the same with an Apache Lucene search index? RAM has beco...

As of 4.0 Lucene has switched to a new pluggable codec architecture, giving the application full control over the on-disk format of all inde...

The 4.0.0 alpha release of Lucene and Solr is finally out! This is a major release with lots of great changes. Here I briefly describe ...

Lucene Revolution 2012 is now done, and the talk Robert and I gave went well! We showed how we are using automata ( FSA s and FST s) to ma...