A compilation of some of the basics of Lucene taken from multiple sources.

The various topics include:

- Types of Fields in Lucene Index
- Core Searching classes
- Score Boosting and relevance ranking
- Scoring Algorithm
- Sorting search results
- Handling multiple pages of search results
- Security
- Composition of Segments in Lucene Index
- Debugging lucene indexing process
- Lucene in Alfresco
- Caching
- Good articles on Lucene

Every web application or enterprise application today is search enabled. Behind the scenes, search is generally takes care of by “Search Engines”.

The powerpoint presentation here introduces Search Engines, indexing and search and briefly touches upon Solr and Lucene the mos popular open source search engine and library respectively.