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Open source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search. Interest in Lucene and Solr is skyrocketing, as measured by job postings.

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline. Why is the GPL still considered the bottom of the open source incline, and not, say, the Apache license?

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability self-inflicted. The bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser.

Embedded Linux achieves one-second boot time. MontaVista Software announced and showed a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat.

Boxee will blow you away. In many ways, the Boxee media center platform is much better than the original XBMC 9.04 RC.



LinkedIn and MySpace Bet On Lucene Open Source Search

As Matt Asay reports, the LinkedIn social network has just upgraded its people search features, based on the open source search project Lucene. And, as Ars Technica discussed in June, MySpace recently updated its search features using Lucene as well --including making contributions to Lucene. OStatic's own search features are powered by Lucene, and many leaders of web sites, blogs and web applications should look into this extremely powerful open source information retrieval engine.


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.