David Pell Solr Flair: Take Advantage of Solr's Sexiest Features
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But what is it that makes Solr so sexy? That question was the subject of an interesting and quite useful presentation at ApacheCon NA 2011 by Erik Hatcher, an ASF member an active committer on the Lucene and Solr projects.
The bottom line
You haven't experienced the full power of the Solr platform until you've explored what it has to offer in the way of state of the art user interfaces and interactions.
To give you an idea of what that means, here's a list of some of the topics covered in the presentation:
- Live systems that leverage Ajax Suggest
- “Instant” search and preview
- Did you mean?
- Spell checking
- Faceting
- Filtering, grouping, and clustering
The presentation also covers charts, maps and timelines generated from data that Solr indexes. If you want to follow along, look below for the slides.
Solr Flair
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This content on search technologogy is part of the Solr-Lucene Microzone, supported by Lucid Imagination. They can help you harness the full potential of search through their enterprise Solr development platform—LucidWorks Enterprise—which can make your production process simpler and more cost-efficient with open source configurability.
