If you ever wanted to search through the whole Lucene ecosystem (Lucene Java, Mahout, Tika and more) your possible solution of choice is the search engine by Lucid Imagination. It searches through project websites, wikis, mailing-lists (public, dev) and the source code itself – its indexiation performance is also pretty impressive.
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Search Through The Lucene Ecosystem
iTunesU and the Hasso Plattner Institut
I read an article today about the german Hasso-Plattner Institut to publish recodings from lectures and more at iTunesU. Since iTunesU seems only pretty widespread at US universities and I always tried to NOT install iTunes I heard from it the first time and gave it a try!
Information Management Week Summary
I wasn’t able to write any Breakfast Links since monday due to projects (like the upcoming relaunch of this blog), birthday parties and efforts for christmas presents (big, big family)! Finally I turned on my news reader today…
ApacheCon US 2008 Lucene (And Beyond) Sessions
Unfortunately I was not be able to attend at the ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans this year – way too far away from good ol’ germany! But I reviewed the given sessions on Lucene (and Solr, Mahout, Tika) afterwards the conference to get some inspiration. Some comments on it:
Mozenda Web Data Extraction: Quick Review
I already posted Mozenda in my Breakfast Links last week after BS recommended it to check it out. Since web monitoring and data extraction always was an issue for me I was really excited on it. I couldn’t wait and because of their 30-day-trial I signed up and tested it right away.
Google and Information Clustering
I already wrote a small article on how Google is using text clustering to improve their Google News service. It seems that Google starts to integrate text clustering in more and more of their services – last week they released a new Blog Search clustering feature to summarize topics in blogs. (I’m still waiting for [...]
Upcoming Book from Grant Ingersoll, Taming Text
I just stumbled upon a new book from Grant Ingersoll and Thomas Morton called “Taming Text“. It is currently in progress but you can already look into it via Manning early access. Since I was really excited on the Chapter 4 (Identifying People, Places and Things) I already bought the MEAP eBook.