it’s been a while since my last post – and as interests fade with time, others jump up faster than a beach ball at a nickelback concert.

so i’ve been looking into solr the last couple of days.  solr is relatively new in the arena and probably outshined a bit in popularity by other search engines such as lucene and nutch.  “but why solr?”, you may find yourself asking.

Well solr has a couple of tricks up the sleave – which is likely due to the fact that its a fresher version of the old, dare i call it legacy, search engines.

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