Faceted Search is recognized as a powerful search experience enhancement, easy enough for even novice users to filter large result sets.  As I’ve seen the increasing importance of mobile computing, I’ve struggled with how to fit facets on smaller mobile screens.  You see, facets usually belong on the left of search results, but I simply [...]

For us search integrators, auto-complete is one of our most enjoyable challenges.  But make no mistake, implementing scalable search auto-complete can be a challenge.
Search Auto-Complete (aka instant search, find-as-you-type, look-ahead, predictive search, and many other names) is becoming more popular because if done right it can be great for end users, but the performance is [...]

The NoSQL movement had been garnering a lot of attention recently. It’s a trend largely facilitated by the changing demands of the transactional web. Today, the web is bidirectional and much more content oriented than it was in years past. The amount of user generated content has increased exponentially and relational databases are not tailored [...]

Tomorrow night (Feb 2) I’m excited to participate in the Denver Open Source Users Group’s (DOSUG) first “Lightning Talk” night where I will be presenting an overview of Solr, a leading open-source enterprise search engine. The event is an O’Reilly Ignite style event.  There will be 14+ short 5-minute presentations on various topics.
If you’re in Denver [...]