Both Solr and Elasticsearch include suggester components, which can be used to provide search engine users with suggested completions of queries as they type: Query autocomplete has become an expected part of the search experience. Its benefits to the user include les...Continue reading
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Elastic London Meetup: Rightmove & Signal Media and a new free security plugin for Elasticsearch
I finally made it to a London Elastic Meetup again after missing a few of the recent events: this time Rightmove were the hosts and the first speakers. They described how they had used Elasticsearch Percolator to run 3.5 million stored searches on new property listings as part of an overall migration from the Exalead search engine and Oracle database to a new stack bas...Continue reading
Searching for (and finding) open source in the UK Government
There have been some very encouraging noises recently about increased use of open source software by the UK Government: for example we've seen the creation of an Open Source Procurement Toolkit by the Cabinet Office, which lists Continue reading
Events: Open source for government and search in Cambridge
We'll be attending the Guardian's Public Procurement Show on June 14th & 15th as part of the Open Goverment stand - with the recent release by the UK government Cabinet Office of a new IT strategy (here are some industry reactions...Continue reading
Open source intranet search over millions of documents with full security
Last year my colleague Tom Mortimer talked about indexing security information within an open source enterprise search application, and we're happy to announce more details of the project. Our client is an international radio supplier, who had considered both closed source products and search appliances, but chose open source for greater flexibility and the much lower cost of scaling...Continue reading
Intranet search event
Intranet Search was the theme for a small gathering last night at the (rather imposing) Ministry of Justice in London. We heard from Luke Oatham on intranet search at the Ministry itself, powered by Google over a reasonably small set of static and hand-published HTML. Simon Thompson continued with a neat way of enhancing Sharepoint search, using Continue reading
Find out how we build in document security for open source search
My colleague Tom Mortimer will be talking at the London Intranet Show & Tell on 2nd December, about how to implement document-level security for search: his presentation is titled "Implementing ACLs in an open source search solution". There are still a few tickets left for this small event, which will be of value to those working on intranet search....Continue reading