A few weeks ago Erik Hatcher paid a visit to my project. You may have read his book. He is a contributor to the Lucene project and came to give a talk and answer any questions that we had. I got to meet him and talk to him for a few minutes before he gave his talk and he seemed like a pretty cool guy (not to mention that he had a MacBook Pro with him). In his talk he referenced some other open source projects such as:
Nutch
Solr
He also mentioned some companies that are using Lucene as their search engine. They are:
Nabble
Guru
Simpy
Krugle
Michaels
Some tools that can be used to test a Lucene index include:
LUKE
LIMO
I was particularly interested in Ferret. He also recommended the books "Ambiant Findability" and "Managing Gigabytes".
Posted by troutm8 at October 12, 2006 11:10 AM