"Lemur and Ibuildings, the PHP web development company, partnered for a delivery at the start of 2009 for a major UK TV channel. The work itself is of strategic importance to that business, and the exact nature of the project confidential. What we can say is that the skills of Lemur and Ibuildings were utilised to the max, as the project demanded an extremely fast turnaround and deep knowledge of natural language search and sentiment analysis within a complex application framework. The customer was delighted with the results, and Ibuildings and Lemur proved that their engineers work as a joined up team, delivering to the customer needs."
	Flax is woven into the new offering from Brent Hoberman of lastminute.com fame, mydeco. This pioneering website lets you search over 1.5 million items from hundreds of suppliers of interior design. Flax is used throughout the site, providing autocompletion of user queries and automatic suggestion of related items. Results can be dynamically filtered by price range and facets such as Designer and Retailer, or by user tags.
	Flax is part of the Newspaper Licensing Agency's pioneering NLA eClips offering. The service provides journalists and librarians at the national and regional publishers with access to a central database of digital clippings. NLA eClips provides users with PDF images of the original articles and newspaper pages from all contributing publishers. Read a case study (PDF) of how Flax helped the Newspaper Licensing Agency, and try searching UK newspaper articles with Clipsearch.
	"Millward Brown Precis used Lemur Consulting to develop leading edge data visualisation for its innovative Precis:cubed service, which mines web content and analyses brands and messages communicated. We have been very impressed with the professionalism of Lemur, who produced the required work on time and within budget."
	Development of Bamboo, a searchable database for academic data: "I have worked with probabilistic search systems for fifteen years and they have provided superb tools which I have never found replicated elsewhere. I am naturally delighted to continue the link between the University and those who who have worked in this field."
	Flax is being used as part of a DTI-funded collaborative project undertaken by e-Therapeutics PLC. As part of this project a searchable index of over 100 million web pages has been created, proving the scalability of the Flax platform. Read the press release here (PDF).
	Flax is being used by U.S. based integrator Enfold Systems as part of their software suite based on the Plone content management system. Customers using Flax include The Airports Council International - North America.
	Lemur Consulting installed and customised Flax as part of the Studio 24 FAQ/Helpdesk system, now used by Cambridge City Council.
	"Lemur Consulting's wide range of expertise in different search engine technologies makes them invaluable partners when developing solutions for our clients. We have worked together on a number of key client solutions and Lemur's assistance has been crucial to successful delivery, on time and within budget."
	"Lemur Consulting created software to our specifications and much more. We ended up with a service far beyond our initial expectations, and look forward to using Lemur again in the near future."
	Extensions to existing search engine including e-commerce features, distributed indexing, numeric or string sorting and automatic thesaurus: "Lemur Consulting help us develop impressive new search features to complement our market-leading business commerce solution, adapting quickly to new requirements as our customers request them."
	Creation of a customised web spider for gathering financial and other news.
	Development, installation and support of search-related J2EE components within a high-demand national website.

The Xapian search engine that Flax is built on is used by organisations across the world including the German newspaper Die Zeit and UK parliamentary resource TheyWorkForYou.org. Click here to see some of the other projects and organisations powered by Xapian.

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