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Using the Filter Query in Solr (fq)

By On March 23, 2009 · 5 Comments

Filter queries are applied to a result set after it has generated the search results. This can be useful in cases where you want to filter by category or user.

In my use case, I’d like to filter a list of questions by a group of categories on Answerbag. This is used primarily for partner [...]

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Setting up a Solr Index

By On February 17, 2009 · 1 Comment

Setting up a solr index isn’t that hard, but I found the documentation to be somewhat hard to find. It only took me a few hours from start to finish to go from download to indexing my documents, but I think it could have happened a lot faster if I had some of the below [...]

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How to Install the Lucene Search Engine using Solr

By On March 15, 2008 · 5 Comments

I’m going to go through the steps necessary to install and start using Solr. I’ve always been interested in trying out Lucene, but I never felt like dealing with writing my own wrapper around the classes. Solr simplifies this by creating a fully working search engine as a web service.

Let’s get started. You’ll [...]

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