Archive for the ‘Search&Find’ Category

Using different URL for Apache Solr post.jar

If you want to use the post.jar of Apache Solr to post content to Solr, you can change the used Solr Server URL via java -Durl=http://MYSERVER-URL:8080/solr/update -jar post.jar document.xml where MYSERVER-URL should be your Solr Server URL and 8080 the correct port.

Thinking Sphinx attribute filter and negative values

Just wondered why I got no results after executing a search via Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx. The problem was, that I used a negative value in a filter attribute and that Sphinx only supports unsigned integers: Attributes are named. Attribute names are case insensitive. Attributes are not full-text indexed; they are stored in the index [...]

Official Google Blog: Our new search index: Caffeine

Image via Wikipedia Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever [...]

Apache Lucene and Ruby

Robert Dempsey has written a nice article about ‘Using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, Lucene, and Ruby for Web Spidering‘, which is very interesting because it describes how to interact with Apache Lucene using Ruby.

next-generation architecture for Google's web search

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of [...]

Clusty. My new favourite search engine.

It’s a shame that i didn’t recognize this thing of beauty before. :)

searchCrystal. search visualization tool

searchCrystal lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place. It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr images or RSS feeds.

krugle code search engine

Just found krugle. A nifty search engine which helps you finding source-code by searching through projects which are available in the internet. It also allows you to add comments to the code. Krugle helps programmers find existing source code and the information they need to evaluate, deploy and fix code. There is a demo-video which [...]

Grokker. Now and then.

I have tested Grooker — a really nice looking search-engine — some years ago, when it was a desktop-application. Seems that it has become a web-application since then. Its still nice looking and returns good results.

Search Wikia

Thanks to Dave Winer’s posting, i have found out about Search Wikia. The basic concept of the search project is that I want to create a completely transparent, open-source, freely licensed search engine, [...] (more @ infoworld.com)