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<meta name="author" value="Ted Husted">
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<title>Jakarta Lucene - Background - Jakarta Lucene</title>
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<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org"><img src="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif" border="0"/></a>
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<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/"><img src="./images/lucene-logo.gif" alt="Jakarta Lucene" border="0"/></a>
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<p><strong>About</strong></p>
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<li> <a href="./index.html">Overview</a>
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<li> <a href="./features.html">Features</a>
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<li> <a href="./applications.html">Applications</a>
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<li> <a href="./background.html">Background</a>
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<p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
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<li> <a href="http://www.lucene.com/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi">FAQs</a>
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<li> <a href="../api/overview.html">Javadoc</a>
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<p><strong>Download</strong></p>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.html">Binaries</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.html">Source Code</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html">CVS Repositories</a>
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<p><strong>Community</strong></p>
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<li> <a href="./whoweare.html">Who We Are</a>
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<li> <a href="./powered.html">Powered by Lucene</a>
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<li> <a href="./resources.html">Resources</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">Mailing Lists</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/bugs.html">Bugs</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html">Get Involved</a>
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<p><strong>Jakarta</strong></p>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/acknowledgements.html">Acknowledgements</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contact.html">Contact</a>
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<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/legal.html">Legal</a>
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<a name="BACKGROUND"><strong>BACKGROUND</strong></a>
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<blockquote>
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<h3><img src="./images/dcutting.gif" align="right" alt="Doug Cutting" />How Lucene came to be</h3>
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<p>Lucene is the brainchild of Doug Cutting (pictured), who has been working in the
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field of information retrieval for over a decade.</p>
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<p>Beginning in 1988, Doug spent five years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research
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Center (PARC) developing novel
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approaches to information access. These included a high-performance
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retrieval engine, several innovative search paradigms, advanced linguistic
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analysis methods, and high-quality text summarization algorithms.
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This work resulted in seven <a href="publications.html">publications</a>
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and six issued patents. Some of these technologies are now marketed by
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<a href="http://www.inxight.com/">Inxight</a>.
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<p>In 1993, Doug moved to Apple's Advanced Technology Group (ATG). There
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he developed a state-of-the-art retrieval engine code-named V-Twin.
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This engine was to be a part of the Copland
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operating system, automatically indexing the content of all files as they
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are created so that the the entire file system could be efficiently searched
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at any time. Copland was cancelled, but V-Twin has been used in several
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other Apple products.
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<p>In April of 1996, Doug left Apple and joined <a href="http://www.excite.com/">Excite</a>.
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Here he took over development of the core search technology. This included
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growing Excite's web index from two million to fifty million
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pages; substantially optimizing Excite's search performance; adding phrase-searching
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capabilities; and creating a thesaurus-like feature which suggests related
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terms to add to queries.
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<p>In the fall of 1997, Doug reduced his commitment at Excite to
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part-time so that he could write <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/">Lucene</a>,
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an efficient, full-featured text search engine written in Java. In early 1998 he
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returned to Excite full-time for two more years. Lucene sat on the shelf for
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much of that time, and was made open-source in the spring of 2000.</p>
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<p>Lucene quickly became recognized as the leading server-side searching
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solution for Java, and attracted several other open source developers, eager
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to help refine the Lucene codebase.</p>
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<p>In the fall of 2001, Lucene joined the Apache Jakarta Project, where
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the product is maintained by a team of volunteer developers.</p>
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<p>Doug now works for <a href="http://www.grandcentral.com/">Grand
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Central</a>, a web services network. In his spare time he still
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tries to help out with Lucene.</p>
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<p>Please do not email Doug directly about Lucene. Instead use
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the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">Jakarta-Lucene mailing lists</a>.</p>
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Copyright © 1999-2001, Apache Software Foundation
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