Changing Bits

Some of you have noticed that I'm not writing much in this blog lately. But fear not: exciting changes are still happening in Lucene , ...

At long last, after a strong series of 4.x feature releases, most recently 4.10.2 , we are finally working towards another major Apache Luce...

For some reason having to do with the medieval French , the scoring system for tennis is very strange . In actuality, the game is easy to...

The simplest Apache Lucene query, TermQuery , matches any document that contains the specified term, regardless of where the term occurs i...

Most search applications using Apache Lucene assign a unique id, or primary key, to each indexed document. While Lucene itself does not...

One of Lucene's useful transactional features is index durability which ensures that, once you successfully call IndexWriter.commit , ...

You may remember my first blog post describing how the Lucene developers eat our own dog food by using a Lucene search application to find ...

Lucene's suggest module offers a number of fun auto-suggest implementations to give a user live search suggestions as they type each ch...

There have been several recent, quiet improvements to Lucene that, taken together, have made it surprisingly simple to add geospatial distan...

In Lucene's facet module we recently added support for dynamic range faceting , to show how many hits match each of a dynamic set of ran...

IP cameras have come a long ways, and recently I upgraded some old cameras to these new Lorex cameras (model LNB2151/LNB2153) and I'm v...