Hi Solr community, I've been talking about my "current project" for months, it's finally live at
http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=500000 It's the new video player page of our "national" (French-speaking part of Switzerland) TV network, backed by a Solr index fed by a continuous stream of incoming videos, as soon as editors enter them in their existing CMS. It's all in French but I've added some info in English at http://codeconsult.ch/bertrand/archives/000760.html. I'm going to base my ApacheCon talk on this example, to show how well Solr copes with "mixed" queries, combining structured, database-like searches with full-text. Solr is mostly used to generate all the dynamic navigation features of that page (via Ajaxish calls), the search function is there but the "exploration" features are much more prominent. I like it very much: don't search, find. Hope you like it...it's all Ajax and video player plugins (they haven't converted their large collection of videos to Flash yet), so you might find some bugs. If so, I'd love to hear about them off-list. Big thanks to the Lucene and Solr folks for making this possible, my part (creating the index back-end and assisting the front-end developers) has been very easy to implement thanks to these great tools! -Bertrand