lucene

Is Lucene.Net suitable as the search engine for frequently changing content?

Is Lucene.Net suitable as the search engine for frequently changing content? Or more specificically, can anybody give a subjective opinion on how quickly lucene.net indexes can be updated. Any other approaches to searching frequently changing content would be great. We’re developing a forum. Forum posts will be frequently added to the...

Recommendations for a spidering tool to use with Lucene or Solr?

What is a good crawler (spider) to use against HTML and XML documents (local or web-based) and that works well in the Lucene / Solr solution space? Could be Java-based but does not have to be. ...

Lucene QueryParser

Does Lucene QueryParser.parse(string) still work? If it is deprecated, what is the new syntax? Query query = QueryParser.parse("Ophelia"); Thanks Tatyana ...

How to index and find numbers with Lucene.NET?

I've implemented full text search for a web site using Lucene.NET (Version 2.0). Indexing and searching works well, but I have one problem. If I look for numbers (phone numbers, product numbers etc.) as search terms, I don't get any resulting documents. I'm using the Lucene.Net.Analysis.SimpleAnalyzer Class. I guess I have to change Ana...

Is there a set of best practices for building a Lucene index from a relational DB?

I'm looking into using Lucene and/or Solr to provide search in an RDBMS-powered web application. Unfortunately for me, all the documentation I've skimmed deals with how to get the data out of the index; I'm more concerned with how to build a useful index. Are there any "best practices" for doing this? ...

using date range in Lucene.net

I understand how Lucene.net can work for text indexing. Will I be able to efficiently search for documents based on a given date range? Or will Lucene.net just use text matching to match the dates? ...

Comparison: DB Full Text search to Search engine (Lucene)

With stackoveflow.com in perspective (team of 2-3 engineers building a website project intended to scale) does it make sense to spend effort early in the process of development to build a search based on Lucene/Autonomy… as opposed to a database based full text search. Pros/Cons: With a mature Lucene implementation like nutch or auton...

Efficient Filtering / Searching

We have a hosted application that manages pages of content. Each page can have a number of customized fields, and some standard fields (timestamp, user name, user email, etc). With potentially hundreds of different sites using the system -- what is an efficient way to handle filtering/searching? Picture a grid view that you want to narr...

Lucene.Net and Geosearch - is it outthere somewhere?

I've found an interesting article about Lucene and geosearching: http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2008/02/spatial-search-with-lucene.html Is there an equivilant .NET implementation out there that I have been unable to find or do I have to rework the Java-code in his example to fit in the .NET Framework? ...

Which is the best opensource project which uses lucene extensively?

Either in .net or java. ...

Using Zend Lucene to search PDF files

Is there a way to use Zend_Search_Lucene to search/index PDF documents? ...

Searching phrases in Lucene

Could somebody point me to an example how to search for phrases with Lucene.net? Let's say I have in my index a document with field "name", value "Jon Skeet". Now I want to be able to find that document when searching for "jon skeet". ...

Find all feature in Lucene

Hi, I have two fields on my web page ie: BookAuthor and BookDescription.On submit,the page searches against lucene index using the given search criteria. If the user does not type in anything in the two fields and submits the page, how do make Lucene.Net return all the books from my index irrespective of BookAuthor and BookDescription ...

Grouping search results by fields

How do i group search results returned by Lucene by fields? Thanks! ...

"Did you mean?" feature in Lucene.net

Hi, Can someone please let me know how do I implement "Did you mean" feature in Lucene.net? Thanks! ...

Paging Lucene's search results

I am using Lucene to show search results in a web application.I am also custom paging for showing the same. Search results could vary from 5000 to 10000 or more. Can someone please tell me the best strategy for paging and caching the search results? Thanks! ...

Bubbling up newer records

Hi, Is it possible to bubble up newer records in lucene search results? ie.I want Lucene to give a higher score to records which are closer to today's date. Thanks! ...

Applying one or more field level filtering on search results

Hi, How do i apply one or more field level filters on existing search results returned by lucene? Thanks! Ed ...

"Exclude these words" feature

Hi, How do I implement "Exclude these words" feature for a search appliation using Lucene? Thanks! ...

Multifield search in Lucene

Hi, I need to do a multi-field level search on Books database using Lucene. for example:my search criteria is something like: (Author:a1 and title:t1) OR (Author:a2 and title:t2) OR (Author:a3 and title:t3) where a1, t1 etc are author names and book titles respectively. How do I get my Lucene Query object built for this kind of cri...