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Lucene’s performance, simplicity, disarming ease-of-use, and best practices are covered in this look at the highly scalable, fast, and pure Java search engine. Newly documented solutions explain what Lucene is and how it works and how it can be used in a variety of real-world applications such as Nutch. Users will also use this guide to understand and solve “analysis paralysis,” employ advanced searching techniques, such as filtering and custom query parsing, and handle a variety of document types such as Word, PDF, HTML, and XML.

About the Author
Erik Hatcher is an Apache Software Foundation member and committer on several projects including Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry. He is a frequent speaker at industry events including JavaOne, OSCON, JUG meetings, and the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposiums. He is the author of many articles published at java.net, JavaPro, and developerWorks and is the coauthor of Java Development with Ant. Otis Gospodnetic is an Active Apache Jakarta committer, a member of the Apache Jakarta project management committee, a developer of Lucene, and maintainer of the jGuru’s Lucene FAQ. He is the author of several articles published on O’Reilly Network, IBM developerWorks, and interChange, the International SGML/XML User Group publication.
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This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings. It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users’ experience once they get to the site. By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information architects, Web designers/developers, SEOs/SEMs, and usability professionals build better interfaces and functionality into Web sites. Creating a satisfying user experience is the key to maximizing search effectiveness and getting conversions.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Search Usability
Chapter 2: The Scent of Information and Web Search Engines
Chapter 3: Navigational Searches: Where Can I Go?
Chapter 4: Informational Searches: What Can I Learn?
Chapter 5: Transactional Searches: What Can I Do?
Chapter 6: Browsing Search Behaviors
Chapter 7: Search Usability and Your Site’s Success
Chapter 8: Search Usability is Everyone’s Job
Chapter 9: How to Improve Your Website’s Search Usability

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Enterprise and web applications require full-featured, “Google-quality” search capabilities, but such features are notoriously difficult to implement and maintain. Hibernate Search builds on the Lucene feature set and offers an easyto- implement interface that integrates seamlessly with Hibernate-the leading data persistence solution for Java applications.

Hibernate Search in Action introduces both the principles of enterprise search and the implementation details a Java developer will need to use Hibernate Search effectively. This book blends the insights of the Hibernate Search lead developer with the practical techniques required to index and manipulate data, assemble and execute search queries, and create smart filters for better search results. Along the way, the reader masters performance-boosting concepts like using Hibernate Search in a clustered environment and integrating with the features already in your applications.

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A self-respecting Google hacker spends hours trolling the Internet for juicy stuff. Firing off search after search, they thrive on the thrill of finding clean, mean, streamlined queries and get a real rush from sharing those queries and trading screenshots of their findings. I know because I’ve seen it with my own eyes. As the founder of the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) and the Search engine hacking forums at http://johnny.ihackstuff.com, I am constantly amazed at what the Google hacking community comes up with. It turns out the rumors are true-creative Google searches can reveal medical, financial, proprietary and even classified information. Despite government edicts, regulation and protection acts like HIPPA and the constant barking of security watchdogs, this problem still persists. Stuff still makes it out onto the web, and Google hackers snatch it right up. Protect yourself from Google hackers with this new volume of information.
-Johnny Long

• Learn Google Searching Basics: Explore Google’s Web-based Interface, build Google queries, and work with Google URLs.
• Use Advanced Operators to Perform Advanced Queries: Combine advanced operators and learn about colliding operators and bad search-fu.
• Learn the Ways of the Google Hacker: See how to use caches for anonymity and review directory listings and traversal techniques. Download Now »