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Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr will take place in San Diego April 29 – May 2.

The 2013 conference will build on the success of last year’s Lucene Revolution in Boston. Presented by LucidWorks with additional support from community and other commercial co-sponsors, we’ll be adding new sessions, new speakers, and new training…

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Lucene Revolution 2012, held in Boston on May 7-10 was a huge success. The four-day conference began with two days of Lucene/Solr and Big Data training followed by two days of well-received presentations.  Nearly 400 attendees converged for these two days packed with technical sessions, developer content, user case studies, panels, and networking opportunities. Lucene Revolution 2012 featured key thought…

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A good portion of the appeal of platforms like Lucene/Solr comes from the fact that they let individuals and businesses discover something they didn’t know before. Ninety plus percent of the world’s digital content is unstructured or “dark” data. With conventional search tools, your knowledge of what’s out there is determined by the quality of tags that someone attached to…

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Do your friends understand what you do for a living?

Answering that question will increasingly emerge as of the most important issues in search, analytics and Big Data over the next few years.  Explaining what we all do for a living, in fact, will likely be one of the primary topics of hallway conversation at the Lucene Revolution developer’s…

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The Internet has dramatically increased the volume and ease-of-access to the world’s knowledge.

But in some ways it has also made it more difficult to find a precise answer. A simple search on NaCl on commercial search engines brings up links for the North American Cultural Laboratory, North American Coating Labs and ads for food thickeners.

We are very proud…

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Recommendation engines have been a source of web comedy for years. Amazon thinks you’re a 17-year old girl because of Christmas gifts you bought for your daughter while other sites try to steer you to information about Ensure and assisted living.

But recommendation engines are also essential for navigating modern web sites, particularly sprawling e-commerce sites or web properties with…

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Got a tough problem with your Solr or Lucene application? Facing challenges that you’d like some advice on? Looking for better approaches to an Solr issue you already solved? Want to win a prize?

Email a description of your problem to stump@lucenerevolution.com and see if you can Stump The Chump. Prizes will be awarded at the discretion of…

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Big Government and Big Data – it’s a perfect match.

Yes, from certain perspectives, that sounds ominous. But step back for a moment and think about the data and computing needs of the federal and state agencies that aren’t the IRS.

The Department of Agriculture is one the world’s primary repositories on data regarding crops, food production and water reserves.…

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You can make an argument that the world only really went digital ten years ago.

2002 marked the first year that the amount of information stored on hard drives, CD-ROMs, flash cards and other digital devices surpassed analog technologies like paper, stone tables and record albums.  This is according to an article by Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez…

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I’m excited to announce the panel members for this year’s Stump The Chump at Lucene Revolution:

• Moderator: Erik Hatcher, Lucid Imagination – Lucene/Solr Committer and co-author of Lucene in Action
• Panel Members:
  • Erick Erickson, Lucid Imagination – Lucene/Solr Committer
  • Eric Pugh, OpenSource Connections – co-author of Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server
  • Grant

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