The trouble with tabbing: editing rich text on the Web
Matt Pearce, who joined the Flax team earlier this year, writes: A recent client wished to convert documents to and from Microsoft Office formats, using a web form as an intermediate step for editing...
View ArticleSearching for IP addresses in text with Elasticsearch
We recently implemented a search solution for a customer using Elasticsearch. Most of their requirements were fairly standard, however they also wanted to be able to search for IP addresses embedded in...
View ArticleEnterprise Search & Discovery 2014, Washington DC
Last week I attended Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014, part of the KMWorld conference in Washington DC. I’d been asked to speak on Turning Search Upside Down and luckily had the first slot after...
View ArticleFIBEP WMIC 2015 – Open source search for media monitoring with Solr
FIBEP WMIC 2015 – How Infomedia upgraded their closed-source search engine to a fast, scalable and flexible open-source platform from Charlie Hull The post FIBEP WMIC 2015 – Open source search for...
View ArticleElasticsearch for Westcoast – why search is never simple!
Elasticsearch for Westcoast from Charlie Hull The post Elasticsearch for Westcoast – why search is never simple! appeared first on Flax.
View ArticleOut and about in search & monitoring – Autumn 2015
It’s been a very busy few months for events – so busy that it’s quite a relief to be back in the office! Back in late November I travelled to Vienna to speak at the FIBEP World Media Intelligence...
View ArticleHelping Bloomberg build a real-time news search engine with Luwak
Bloomberg is one of the world’s leading providers of financial news via the Bloomberg Terminal, an almost ubiquitous presence on the desks of finance professionals. As you might expect their systems...
View ArticleChoosing between Elasticsearch and Solr
One of the questions we’re asked all the time is which of the two most popular open source search engines is best for a particular use case – and the answer is always ‘it depends’. Broadly speaking,...
View ArticleLucene Revolution 2016, Boston
After our two successful hackdays, it was on to the main event of the week and the largest open source search event of the year. In between catching up with other Lucene/Solr folks on the first day I...
View ArticleFinding the Bad Actor: Custom scoring & forensic name matching with...
Finding the Bad Actor: Custom scoring & forensic name matching with Elasticsearch from Charlie Hull The post Finding the Bad Actor: Custom scoring & forensic name matching with Elasticsearch...
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