Category Archives: indexing

"Super Indexing Sunday" Breaks World Record With 2 Million Records Indexed in a Day

Posted on February 7, 2011 by jessestay

Facebook has quite a database with 500 million active users, and rumored total users in the billions.  There are few that can relate to the types of problems engineers and architects encounter with a database of that size.  FamilySearch.org is … Continue reading →

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Twitter Hires 140th "Character", Adds Lucene Committer Michi Busch to its Search Talent

Posted on February 16, 2010 by jessestay

It’s no secret Twitter has a desire to have a stronger search presence.  With business models that thrive on content publishing and organization, a strong search product is necessary to provide the most revenue down the road.  Just today, while … Continue reading →

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