Solr Heats Up Search Landscape
August 16, 2010
“Enterprise Drupal Solr search|Achieve Internet: Enterprise Drupal Web Development & Drupal Web Design” reports that “Achieve Internet is now leading the Solr development portion of the project.” Solr is a popular search platform due to its speed and features, but did you know how many enterprises are using Solr? From Achieve Internet’s website, here are the top five public sites that use Solr to handle search:
- Internet Archive – Search this vast repository of music, documents, and video using Solr.
- Netflix – Solr powers basic movie searching on this extremely busy site.
- Smithsonian Institution – Search the Smithsonian’s collection of over four million items
- StubHub.com – This ticket reseller uses Solr to help visitors search for concerts and sporting events.
- White House.gov– The Obama administration’s keystone website is Drupal and Solr!.
Solr’s gaining momentum and is already being used by industry leaders for searches. You can download Lucene/Solr from www.lucidimagination.com.
Bret Quinn, August 16, 2010
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