Re: Can Solr be used to search public websites(Newbie).

2008-09-17 Thread George Everitt
Dear Con, Searching the entire Internet is a non-trivial computer science problem. It's kind of like asking a brain surgeon the best way to remove a tumor. The answer should be "First, spend 16 years becoming a neurosurgeon". My point is, there is a whole lot you need to know beyond "i

Re: Inverted Search Engine

2008-01-23 Thread George Everitt
Wow, that's spooky. Thanks for the heads up - looks like a good list to subscribe to as well George Everitt Applied Relevance LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 (727) 641-4660 Fax: +1 (727) 233-0672 Skype: geverit4 AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:

Inverted Search Engine

2008-01-23 Thread George Everitt
lity into Solr? I have my own thoughts, but they are still a bit primitive, and I'd like to throw it over the transom and see who bites... George Everitt Applied Relevance LLC

Re: Newbie question about Solr use in web applications

2007-12-18 Thread George Everitt
On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Stuart Sierra wrote: On Dec 13, 2007 9:20 PM, solruser2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's say I have a database containing people, groups, and projects (these all have different fields). I want to index these different kinds of objects with a view to eventually p

Re: does solr handle hierarchical facets?

2007-12-17 Thread George Everitt
On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote: ie, if this is your hierarchy... Products/ Products/Computers/ Products/Computers/Laptops Products/Computers/Desktops Products/Cases Products/Cases/Laptops Products/Cases/CellPhones Then this trick won't work (because L

Re: Facets - What's a better term for non technical people?

2007-12-17 Thread George Everitt
I don't think you have to give the user a label other than the name of the facet field. The beauty of facets is that they are pretty intuitive. Manufacturer Microsoft (140) Logitech Inc. (128) Belkin (127) Rosewill (124) APEVIA (Aspire) (119) STARTECH (97) That said

Re: Heritrix and Solr

2007-11-22 Thread George Everitt
t.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message From: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:54:32 PM Subject: Re: Heritrix and Solr On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:41:41 -0500 George Everitt <[E

Heritrix and Solr

2007-11-22 Thread George Everitt
I'm looking for a web crawler to use with Solr. The objective is to crawl about a dozen public web sites regarding a specific topic. After a lot of googling, I came across Heritrix, which seems to be the most robust well supported open source crawler out there. Heritrix has an integratio

Re: Can you parse the contents of a field to populate other fields?

2007-11-07 Thread George Everitt
Even if that's not your goal, this might help someone else. George Everitt On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Kristen Roth wrote: So, I think I have things set up correctly in my schema, but it doesn't appear that any logic is being applied to my Category_# fields - they are being p

Re: [slightly ot] Looking for Lucene/Solr consultant in Germany

2007-08-15 Thread George Everitt
ith those limitations, I'd be happy to help. Let me know if you're interested. George Everitt Applied Relevance LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 (727) 641-4660 Fax: +1 (727) 233-0672 On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Jan Miczaika wrote: Hello, we are looking for a Lucene/Solr con