Search as middle-ware at att.com, with Shantanu Deo - Coté's People Over Process »

Informal conversation starts with AT&T's CMS and goes on to talk about using Solr for catalog search on the site.  It started as a bit of a skunkworks, and takes very little maintenance and few resources.

tags: case-studies site-search database-search open-source

Solr Spellchecker internals (now with tests!) « emmaespina

Excellent introduction to the default Solr spelling checker processes.  The test information is particularly useful, including data sets with natural human-made spelling errors.  There's a follow-up that's also very useful.

tags: spellchecker open-source testing research

Using Google [Connectors] for Lucene < Real Story Group Blog

Lucid Imagination is using the open source enterprise connector famework with their LucidWorks Enterprise distribution of Solr/Lucene.  

tags: open-source connectors file-formats enterprise search engine search vendors

Classifying Searchers - What Really Counts? - Enterprise Search Blog

Thinking about relationships with search engine vendors, market niches, diverse information requirements, and many more issues in managing search. 

tags: overviews search vendors enterprise search engines