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Lucene: The Open Source Search Engine

If you want to search for a piece of text on the Web, you probably turn to Google or a similar search engine. But how can you integrate search into your Web site?

Lucene is a high-quality Apache-sponsored engine for indexing and searching documents. While that would be enough for most people, a host of add-ons and complementary open source products make Lucene an even better choice when looking for a search engine.



Wikia: Open Search, Open Source

You may not have heard of Wikia Search before. A relatively new project from the Wikipedia folks, they've entered the search-engine fray with an attitude that is just about as open as it is possible to be. Not only is their underlying software open source (under BSD licenses), but the very search results themselves are as open to editing as Wikipedia pages.


Welcome to OStatic!

Hello, and welcome to OStatic, where we are ecstatic about open source! I'm Sam Dean, and I'm the editor of the OStatic blog. We are very glad you're here.

OStatic's mission is to be the most comprehensive web destination for information and insight on open source software and services. This blog features a team of writers who have been using and writing about open source tools for years. You'll find them to be especially good at guiding you to the very best applications.



Microsoft, Powerset and Open Source Searching

Last week, following a report in VentureBeat, we wrote about the rumor that Microsoft was set to acquire natural language search company Powerset for $100 million. Turns out the rumor was true, although the terms of the deal are not disclosed. Powerset gets its semantic search muscle from the open source, cluster-based technology Hadoop. As we've discussed before, Hadoop also powers much of Yahoo's search. It looks like Microsoft's LiveSearch is going to be embracing powerful open source clustered search. This could represent a new chapter in natural language search. Find more analysis on GigaOm.


Search Documents in the Federal Register With Govpulse

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If you like to follow U.S. politics but have trouble keeping up with all the legislation that the government is working on at any given time, then govpulse is an open source project you'll want to know about. It's a finalist in the Apps for America 2 contest and is a real boon for American citizens who want to know what's happening inside the federal office of our nation.

Since 1935, the Federal Register has been the main repository of information for newly proposed laws and regulations, public governmental meeting notifications, final rulings, Presidential documents and more. It's updated every business day and contains over one million pages of information about governmental proceedings, but there's never been an easy way to search its data -- until now.



GigaOm: Yahoo, Now Offering Search as a Web Service

Yahoo today announced the beta version of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which essentially turns its core search and other related technologies into a free web service that can be used by anyone who wants to build a search engine. According to Yahoo: Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. GigaOm points out that it will allow anyone to rank, arrange and display search results that befit their own algorithm, without as much as acknowledging that the results are coming from Yahoo. Check out more analysis at GigaOm, and an analysis of Yahoo's alpha partners.


Re: Lucene: The Open Source Search Engine

The OStatic search is built on Lucene indexer with Solr. We are using the facet capabilities here to make it easier for our members to find the essential information they seek. Solr is very powerful and quite easy to work with. The documentation is very good as well. Many thanks to the people who build this essential OSS technology.


Lucid Imagination Launches, With Support for Lucene and Solr Search

Lucid Imagination, a Massachussetts-based startup focused on support and services for open source search technologies Apache Lucene and Solr, has announced that it has officially launched. The company was one of only a tiny handful of open source companies to obtain significant venture capital funding in the fourth quarter of last year.? The company collected $6 million from a $7.5 million Series A funding round led by Granite Ventures and Walden International. It will focus on both developers and organizations using Lucene and Solr.


Live Search: A Firefox Extension from Microsoft

Even Microsoft can't ignore the power of Mozilla's Firefox browser anymore. The company has released a Firefox extension called Live Search that is designed to deliver fast results and suggestion based on Microsoft's search engine from within Firefox. The extension was written by the Live Search team at Microsoft.? What's surprising here is that Microsoft doesn't deliver more extensions for Firefox that could benefit it and everybody else.


Re: Wikia: Open Search, Open Source

Was just testing it out and it looks pretty good for mainstream searches, but a little iffy for the long-tail. Spam is always a concern with an "open" format like that and Not sure if it will be able take market share from GOOG...


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