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Covid-19 has affected almost every country around the globe and has left everyone looking for the latest information. Below are just some of those who are searching for data: Government agencies trying to manage information for the public Healthcare organizations ... Read More...

Introduction Docker is popular because it makes it easy to package and deliver programs. This article will show you how to run the Java-based, open-source crawler, Norconex HTTP Collector and Elasticsearch Committer in Docker to crawl a website and index ... Read More...

Norconex just made it easier to understand the inner-workings of its crawlers by creating clickable flow diagrams. Those diagrams are now available as part of both the Norconex HTTP Collector and Norconex Filesystem Collector websites. Clicking on a shape will ... Read More...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been all the rage lately, used by many organizations, companies and even individuals. This rise in popularity can be attributed to the sheer number of services provided by AWS, such as Elastic Compute (EC2), Elastic ... Read More...

There are many business applications where web crawling can be of benefit. You or your team likely have ongoing research projects or smaller projects that come up from time to time. You may do a lot of manual web searching ... Read More...

Google Search Appliance (GSA) was introduced in 2002, and since then, thousands of organizations have acquired Google “search in a box” to meet their search needs. Earlier this year, Google announced they are discontinuing sales of this appliance past 2016 ... Read More...

Docker is all the rage at the moment! It was recently selected as Gartner Cool Vendor in DevOps. As you may already know, Docker is a platform to build and deploy applications as self-contained units. Those units, called containers, can ... Read More...

Introduction You already know that Solr is a great search application, but did you know that Solr 5 could be used as a platform to slice and dice your data?  With Pivot Facet working hand in hand with Stats Module, ... Read More...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to run Solr as a Microsoft Windows service. Up to version 5.0.0, it was possible to run Solr inside the Java web application container of your choice. However, since the release of ... Read More...

I am very excited about the new Solr 5. I had the opportunity to download and install the latest release, and I have to say that I am impressed with the work that has been done to make Solr easy ... Read More...