Last week at work was slow.. I installed Jabber, put the finishing touches on footjoy.com, and worked on the linux desktop I have all day on Friday because I had to FTP about 3GB’s of data via a VPN connection, which completely tied up my Windows desktop machine. So Friday I installed and began working with Lucene, an open source full text searching api written entirely in Java. By sheer coincidence, Lucene was written by the same guy who wrote the V-Twin search capability in the Mac, which I mentioned yesterday (and found out about by reading Interface Culture, weird!). By the end of this coming week I hope to have a functional search for this site using Lucene. But for now.. links:
Javaworld Article on using Lucene
Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW (With CD-ROM)