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When real-time search isn't
Avi Rappoport writes about 'real-time' search, a popular subject at the moment. Twitter search is one example of this kind of application, where a stream of new content is arriving very quickly. From a search engine developer's point of view there are various things to consider: how quickly new content must become searchable, how to balance this against performance demands and how to rank ...Continue reading
New season
As September begins, there are various events coming up that may be of interest to some of our readers. We have a list of conferences we're attending and/or presenting at. Gartner are running their Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in mid September in London. Also in London is E Commerce Expo 2009 in late October, which may be ...Continue reading
Migrating from lemurconsulting.com
We finally decided to move entirely to flax.co.uk. The one page remaining is the news archive....Continue reading
Please don't compete!
Microsoft have been asking open source companies not to compete on cost, but rather on value, according to ZDNet. Unfortunately the response to this hasn't exactly been positive, as CNET reports. I doubt many open source vendors will be taking much notice of what Microsoft would like them to do, and suspect they wil...Continue reading
Finding search engine people
I've spent some time recently trying to find where people gather and discuss different search engine technologies and approaches. There is a Yahoo group which seems friendly and full of useful content, and a group on LinkedIn, a business networking site. Stephen Arnold's blog is also a mine of information, wi...Continue reading
Introducing the Flax Blog
In concert with our new Flax website, we've decided to start blogging about development of Xapian and Flax, search technology in general, interesting open source projects and indeed anything else we can think of. In this first post, I'll try to explain a little about the motivation behind the Flax project. Here at Lemur Consulting we've worked with search engines for decades, starting with Continue reading
