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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by "marian.steinbach" <ma...@gmail.com> on 2009/09/24 17:51:07 UTC
Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Hello everybody!
The purpose of this mail is to say "thank you" to the creators of Solr
and to the community that supports it.
We released our first project using Solr several weeks ago, after
having tested Solr for several months.
The project I'm talking about is a product search for an online wine
shop (sorry, german user interface only):
http://www.koelner-weinkeller.de/index.php?id=sortiment
Our client offers about 3000 different wines and other related products.
Before we introduced Solr, the products have been searched via
complicated and slow SQL statements, with all kinds problems related
to that. No full text indexing, no stemming etc.
We are happy to make use of several built-in features which solve
problems that bugged us: Facetted search, german accents and stemming
and synonyms beeing the most important ones.
The surrounding website is TYPO3 driven. We integrated Solr by
creating our own frontend plugin which talks to the Solr webservice
(and we're very happy about the PHP output type!).
I'd be glad about your comments.
Cheers,
Marian
Re: Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Posted by Marian Steinbach <ma...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Olivier Dobberkau
<ol...@dkd.de> wrote:
>
> hi marian.
> our extension will be able to do see also once we have set up the indexing
> queue for the typo3 backend.
> we have a concept called typo3 extensions connectors so that you will be
> able to add index documents to your index.
> feel free to contact ingo about the contribution possibililies in our solr
> project.
> if you use open source software you shoud definitly contribute. this gives
> you great karma.
> or as we at typo3 say. inspire people to share!
>
> olivier
>
Hi Olivier!
I am not at all worried about my karma. (I guess I should by now...)
But what worries me is that we won't be able to release a piece of
quality software to the community. That might be worse.
Anyway, keep up the work with your Solr integration! Sounds really promising.
Cheers,
Marian
Re: Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Posted by Olivier Dobberkau <ol...@dkd.de>.
Marian Steinbach schrieb:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Lance Norskog <go...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you seen this? It is another Solr/Typeo3 integration project.
>>
>> http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-solr
>>
>> Would you consider open-sourcing your Solr/Typo3 integration?
>>
>>
>
> Hi Lance!
>
> I wasn't aware of that extension. Having looked at the website, it
> does something very different from what we did. The solr extension
> mentioned above tries to provide a better website search for the Typo3
> CMS on top of Solr.
>
> Our integration doesn't index web pages but product data from an XML
> file. I'd say the implementation is pretty much customer-specific so
> that I don't see a real benefit of making it open source.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marian
>
hi marian.
our extension will be able to do see also once we have set up the
indexing queue for the typo3 backend.
we have a concept called typo3 extensions connectors so that you will be
able to add index documents to your index.
feel free to contact ingo about the contribution possibililies in our
solr project.
if you use open source software you shoud definitly contribute. this
gives you great karma.
or as we at typo3 say. inspire people to share!
olivier
Re: Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Posted by Marian Steinbach <ma...@gmail.com>.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Lance Norskog <go...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you seen this? It is another Solr/Typeo3 integration project.
>
> http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-solr
>
> Would you consider open-sourcing your Solr/Typo3 integration?
>
Hi Lance!
I wasn't aware of that extension. Having looked at the website, it
does something very different from what we did. The solr extension
mentioned above tries to provide a better website search for the Typo3
CMS on top of Solr.
Our integration doesn't index web pages but product data from an XML
file. I'd say the implementation is pretty much customer-specific so
that I don't see a real benefit of making it open source.
Regards,
Marian
Re: Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Posted by Lance Norskog <go...@gmail.com>.
Have you seen this? It is another Solr/Typeo3 integration project.
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-solr
Would you consider open-sourcing your Solr/Typo3 integration?
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Marian Steinbach
<ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Grant!
>
> Thanks for the advidce, I added the link to the list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marian
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Hi Marian,
>>
>> Looks great! Wish I could order some wine. When you get a chance, please
>> add the site to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Grant
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:51 AM, marian.steinbach wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everybody!
>>>
>>> The purpose of this mail is to say "thank you" to the creators of Solr
>>> and to the community that supports it.
>>>
>>> We released our first project using Solr several weeks ago, after
>>> having tested Solr for several months.
>>>
>>> The project I'm talking about is a product search for an online wine
>>> shop (sorry, german user interface only):
>>>
>>> http://www.koelner-weinkeller.de/index.php?id=sortiment
>>>
>>> Our client offers about 3000 different wines and other related products.
>>>
>>> Before we introduced Solr, the products have been searched via
>>> complicated and slow SQL statements, with all kinds problems related
>>> to that. No full text indexing, no stemming etc.
>>>
>>> We are happy to make use of several built-in features which solve
>>> problems that bugged us: Facetted search, german accents and stemming
>>> and synonyms beeing the most important ones.
>>>
>>> The surrounding website is TYPO3 driven. We integrated Solr by
>>> creating our own frontend plugin which talks to the Solr webservice
>>> (and we're very happy about the PHP output type!).
>>>
>>> I'd be glad about your comments.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Marian
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Grant Ingersoll
>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/
>>
>> Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using
>> Solr/Lucene:
>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
>>
>>
>
--
Lance Norskog
goksron@gmail.com
Re: Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Posted by Marian Steinbach <ma...@gmail.com>.
Hi Grant!
Thanks for the advidce, I added the link to the list.
Regards,
Marian
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Marian,
>
> Looks great! Wish I could order some wine. When you get a chance, please
> add the site to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers!
>
> Cheers,
> Grant
>
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:51 AM, marian.steinbach wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody!
>>
>> The purpose of this mail is to say "thank you" to the creators of Solr
>> and to the community that supports it.
>>
>> We released our first project using Solr several weeks ago, after
>> having tested Solr for several months.
>>
>> The project I'm talking about is a product search for an online wine
>> shop (sorry, german user interface only):
>>
>> http://www.koelner-weinkeller.de/index.php?id=sortiment
>>
>> Our client offers about 3000 different wines and other related products.
>>
>> Before we introduced Solr, the products have been searched via
>> complicated and slow SQL statements, with all kinds problems related
>> to that. No full text indexing, no stemming etc.
>>
>> We are happy to make use of several built-in features which solve
>> problems that bugged us: Facetted search, german accents and stemming
>> and synonyms beeing the most important ones.
>>
>> The surrounding website is TYPO3 driven. We integrated Solr by
>> creating our own frontend plugin which talks to the Solr webservice
>> (and we're very happy about the PHP output type!).
>>
>> I'd be glad about your comments.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marian
>
> --------------------------
> Grant Ingersoll
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/
>
> Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using
> Solr/Lucene:
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
>
>
Re: Showcase: Facetted Search for Wine using Solr
Posted by Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>.
Hi Marian,
Looks great! Wish I could order some wine. When you get a chance,
please add the site to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers!
Cheers,
Grant
On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:51 AM, marian.steinbach wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> The purpose of this mail is to say "thank you" to the creators of Solr
> and to the community that supports it.
>
> We released our first project using Solr several weeks ago, after
> having tested Solr for several months.
>
> The project I'm talking about is a product search for an online wine
> shop (sorry, german user interface only):
>
> http://www.koelner-weinkeller.de/index.php?id=sortiment
>
> Our client offers about 3000 different wines and other related
> products.
>
> Before we introduced Solr, the products have been searched via
> complicated and slow SQL statements, with all kinds problems related
> to that. No full text indexing, no stemming etc.
>
> We are happy to make use of several built-in features which solve
> problems that bugged us: Facetted search, german accents and stemming
> and synonyms beeing the most important ones.
>
> The surrounding website is TYPO3 driven. We integrated Solr by
> creating our own frontend plugin which talks to the Solr webservice
> (and we're very happy about the PHP output type!).
>
> I'd be glad about your comments.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marian
--------------------------
Grant Ingersoll
http://www.lucidimagination.com/
Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids)
using Solr/Lucene:
http://www.lucidimagination.com/search