... to as Solr/Lucene. My understanding is Solr/Lucene underpins the fabulous Spotlight search tool that Apple installs on every desktop. Apple also uses Solr/Lucene to power the search functions on its sites and on iTunes. Solr/Lucene could easily challenge Google's own search engine technology should a large enterprise decide to tune it up for a wider Web usage. .... Business News, What's Hot, Investing and Real Estate, Personal Finance at WalletPop, Our Partners ...
Globrix is a UK real estate site that uses FAST and you could see a lot of facets in home listings such as number of bedroom, bathrooms, price range, etc. Then we looked at Newssift that displays sentiment on topics. ...
Our goal: provide to our website users the possibility to find all items (cinemas, restaurants, bhotels/b...) within a defined range of their current locations, sorting results upon distance from them. What we need: a database containing the latitude ... Local bLucene/b is an extension of bLucene/b providing an implementation of geographical searching. Another similar implementation is GeoLucene but it's still an earlier alpha and his developer is unable to work on this project. ...
