Directory of Apache Lucene Resources

Lucene is an open source information retrieval library, originally created in Java by Doug Cutting.

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Apache Lucene

https://lucene.apache.org/
Search engine library with many features including fast indexing, ranked searching, boolean, phrase, and span queries, date-range searching, and extension APIs. News, details of sub-projects, documentation, and downloads. [Open Source]
Compass

http://www.compass-project.org/
An open-source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application. Overview, download, documentation and support.
Nutch

http://nutch.apache.org/
Open-source web-search software, built on Lucene Java. Project news, documentation, and download.
Solr

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
An open-source search server based on the Lucene Java search library. News, documentation, resources, and download.
Supermind Consulting

http://www.supermind.org/
This firm provides Lucene, Solr and Nutch consulting services. Focus is on vertical search and crawling.
The Lucene Search Engine: Powerful, Flexible, and Free

http://www.javaworld.com/jw-09-2000/jw-0915-lucene.html
Review by Brian Goetz of Java World praising the open-source search engine.

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