Archives for 2013

I am currently on a plane, coming back from three wonderful days of training on the Google Search Appliance 7.0 at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.  I must admit that I was as impressed by the environment of ... Read More...

Norconex is glad to help Sophie Carrier-Laforte, an outstanding amateur athlete who is targeting the biggest honors again this year, going further.  I have had the privilege to know Sophie for a long while now and I have seen her progression as an athlete. ... Read More...

Autocomplete (also known as live suggestions or search suggestions) is very popular with Search applications. It is generally used to return either query suggestion (à la Google Autocomplete) or to propose existing search results (à la Facebook). Open source search ... Read More...

Norconex Commons Lang is a generic Java library providing useful utility classes that extend the base Java API.  Its name is shamelessly borrowed from Apache Commons Lang, so people can quickly assume what it’s about just by its name.   It ... Read More...

For a third consecutive year, Norconex will participate in CIBC Run for the Cure event to help out the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.  The run will take place at Tunney’s Pasture in Ottawa, on October 6th 2013.  Help us reach ... Read More...

During a recent client project, I was required to crawl several websites with specific requirements for each.  For example, one of the websites required: to have a meta tag content be used as a URL replacement for the actual URL, ... Read More...

Norconex just released version 1.1 of HTTP Collector, its free web crawler.   This is an important upgrade from the Norconex Development Team, giving you the following great new features and enhancements: Much faster and more constant crawling performance, especially with ... Read More...

Say hello to Norconex HTTP Collector!  At Norconex, we have always recognized the value open-source brings to software development, and to a greater extent, the world.   It benefits us when building custom solutions for our customers and ourselves.   As long-time ... Read More...

Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to work and play around with the Google Search Appliance Version 7.0, and I must say that it’s an interesting piece of technology. Varying opinions, such as “Yeah, GSA is ... Read More...