Part I − Implementing features that Solr lacks According to a report from Forrester Research, 43 % of all visits in webshops start by using the search. …

Once, when the internet wasn’t all that professional, search engines already were so good that they could give thousands of results in the blink of an eye for many searches. I remember reading articles entitled How to get the search hits you want, and 10,000 documents match your query. Now…

How the Solr import itself can help you detect the structure of your data — I recently wrote that Solr can be populated from json without any pre-configuring or pre-defining of data fields and data structures. This feature is very handy. It permits injecting a lot of data without knowing the full structure of it, and having Solr tell you about the structure once it…

Many, many years ago, I made an internet search engine. I was working in a company where we used Rebol in some projects, and I had fun creating a crawler that looked up pages on the internet containing the word rebol. …