Posts Tagged ‘LocalSolr’

Being at the fore of Apache Solr and Lucene Development

December 8th, 2009 by Chris Male
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/12/08/being-at-the-fore-of-apache-solr-and-lucene-development/)

JTeam has always prided itself on being at the forefront of custom software development and exceeding customer expectations. This has been further confirmed with the release of the most voted for features for Apache Solr 1.5, the next version to be developed.

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Geo-Location Search with Solr and Lucene

August 3rd, 2009 by Chris Male
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/08/03/geo-location-search-with-solr-and-lucene/)

Like many people, I use Google Maps to find businesses near my house. This kind of search differs considerably from usual free text searches since I’m no longer just asking for companies that include the phrase pizza, I’m also asking for companies that are near a certain point. This functionality has until recently been found mostly in closed source commercial search applications. However, in the last 6 months support for spatial search has begun to be added to Apache Lucene and Solr, much of which has been developed here at JTeam.

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