Lucene in Action

Ulf Dittmer gave LIA a over at JavaRanch. Thanks Ulf!

...a book that must be considered indispensable by serious users.

Simon P. Chappell wrote a nice Lucene in Action review on Slashdot, giving it a 9 of 10 rating. Thank you, Simon!

Erik was interviewed by BusinessWeek and quoted in the article Search, the Next Generation.

The number of search sites is also skyrocketing, as the technological barrier for search has been lowered. In December, Manning Publications published Lucene in Action, a guide to creating search engines with open-source software called Lucene, which is already used on singer Bob Dylan's Web site. Armed with this book, the average programmer can create a search engine in less than a day, says co-author Erik Hatcher.

Valentin Crettaz is publishing a review of Lucene in Action at Java Ranch soon. He's already.

SearchEngineWatch Associate Editor Chris Sherman wrote a glowing review of Lucene in Action. Thanks Chris!

A nice short review of Lucene in Action has been posted to JavaReference.

A good review of Lucene in Action was posted on TheServerSide.com. Thank you, Joaquin Delgado!

Chirag Chaman thanks

Otis and Erik for the much needed and wonderfully written "Lucene in Action". It's a must-have.

in a posting to the Nutch developers list: Thanks Chirag!

Jack Herrington, author of the fabulous , was the first to review Lucene in Action for Amazon. This is what he had to say:

This is a solid, well-written, introduction to Lucene and related technologies. The book starts with an introduction to the architecture of Lucene, replete with a simple sample application, then goes into an in-depth review of the indexing, searching and querying. XML and HTML indexing are also covered. As are performance issues. The last chapter covers related technologies and other implementations of Lucene into other languages. This is the best book I have seen on Lucene. It's an informative, fun read, that is worth the money if Lucene is central to your application.

Thanks Jack!

Or so says Maria Kochis in her review of upcoming books titled "Banking on the Backlist". Thanks, Maria!