Hey Diggers,

Many in the community have expressed interest in understanding how our new search works.  We’re using Apache SOLR/Lucene which helped us scale horizontally and solved many of our relevancy issues as well as enabling discovery of new content through facets.  Beyond site search, the rich set of features has allowed us build a platform that enables other features such as Related By Source and Related By Keywords.  I’ve recently had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Grant Ingersoll from Lucid Imagination that discusses some of these details.   I hope this podcast gives some insight with regards to how we’ve built the new search platform.

‘Til next time,
Sammy