This would be great! I am particularly interested how they are going about customized search (if they have a plan to do it). I mean if they can reorder raw search results based on some kind of collective knowledge (which is probably kept outside of Lucene index - at least that is what I can see from Nutch score explanations).
Regards, Lukas On Jan 7, 2008 11:14 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See my comment (around #45-50) on Techcrunch about that from late last > night. There is actually one Wikia guy helping Nutch - Dennis Kubes. He > must have been hitting reload on that TC post, because he IMed me quickly > after I posted my comment and clarified that he is that Wikia developer I > was referring to in my comment.... so I'm looking forward to more > contributions from Dennis and his coworkers! :) > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 11:21:33 AM > Subject: Re: Wikia search goes live today > > One other thing to note, you can definitely see Lucene in action (or > Nutch, that is) by clicking on the score returned for a given document > > (try searching for Lucene) and you see, in all it's glory, the Lucene > explain results... It even displays the Nutch logo, which makes me > wonder if they are misusing an ASF trademark (but, IANAL, so I don't > know) since they don't state that Nutch is a trademark of the ASF. > But, that is a discussion for somewhere else... > > > On Jan 7, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > > > > On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Lukas Vlcek wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I noticed that Wikia search goes live today (see > >> http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3719906). > >> Does anybody know where I could find more technical information > >> about their > >> solution? Are they going to contribute their enhancements back to > >> Lucene/Nutch/Hadoop code? My understanding is that as long as they > >> claim > >> they want to build their solution on top of open source technology > >> they > >> should be contributing back. > > > > Not sure what they have done, but nothing in the Apache license > > requires contribution back, even if it would be appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > Grant > > > > -------------------------- > > Grant Ingersoll > > http://lucene.grantingersoll.com > > http://www.lucenebootcamp.com > > > > Lucene Helpful Hints: > > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BasicsOfPerformance > > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://lucene.grantingersoll.com > http://www.lucenebootcamp.com > > Lucene Helpful Hints: > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BasicsOfPerformance > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/