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Last year, Han Jiang's Google Summer of Code project was a big success : he created a new (now, default) postings format for substantia...

Three exciting Lucene features in one day Yesterday was a productive day: suddenly, there are three exciting new features coming to Lucene...

Lucene now has a nice set of suggesters that use an analyzer to tokenize the suggestions: AnalyzingSuggester , FuzzySuggester and Analyzi...

It's been almost two years since I originally factored out the fast and accurate Compact Language Detector from the Chromium project ...

I recently described the new lucene-c-boost github project , which provides amazing speedups (up to 7.8X faster) for common Lucene query ty...

Suggest, sometimes called auto-suggest, type-ahead search or auto-complete, is now an essential search feature ever since Google added it al...

At the end of the day, when Lucene executes a query, after the initial setup the true hot-spot is usually rather basic code that decodes seq...

Have you always wanted your very own Lucene finite state transducer (FST) but you couldn't figure out how to use Lucene's crazy API...

Lucene's facet module has seen some great improvements recently: sizable (nearly 4X) speedups and new features like DrillSideways . The ...

Eating your own dog food is important in all walks of life: if you are a chef you should taste your own food; if you are a doctor you shoul...

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,...