Presented at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2014

2. This ain’t your parent’s search engine!
Grant Ingersoll
CTO, Lucidworks; @gsingers

3. Search is dead.

4. Long Live Search!

5. Search Tech has evolved
Traditional fuzzy keyword lookup is faster than ever at ever increasing scale
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Richer data modeling capabilities
“light relational”
Advanced types
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Dynamic Faceting, Aggregations, Analytics
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Spatial, Record linkage, alerting
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Top N problems

6. (R)Evolutionary Changes in Lucene/Solr
Reduced Memory Usage
FS(A|T)
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Pluggable Formats and Similarity
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Column-oriented storage (optional)
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Time/Space Integration
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Cursors
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Advanced distributed capabilities
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Joins/Grouping/Pivots

7. Demos
Demos

8. Time Series Search
Time series search, analysis and visualization
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Data:
S&P 500 historical data
Twitter
Research

9. Cure what ails you
Hadoop for pre-processing of complex joins
Solr for run time joins, faceting, etc.

10. Clicks, tweets, ratings, locations and much more can all be
leveraged to provide high quality recommendations to users
and deeper insight for data scientists
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Signals power relevance
Query Modification
Increase the findability of
documents and records with
automatic creation of tags, fields
and meta-data
Curate the user experience in
your application with artificial
result ranking, document
injections and obfuscation
Result ManipulationIndex Time Enrichment
Perform real time decision
making and routing in order to
map a users intention or
enterprise policy

11. Introducing Lucidworks
Fusion

12. Search and Recommendations
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eCommerce data set
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~1.2M products
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~4M clicks

13. Meta
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http://www.lucidworks.com
grant@lucidworks.com
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Twitter: @gsingers

14. Appendix