MTV Networks and Solr

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MTV Networks and Solr
NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup July 22, 2009
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Search at MTV Networks

• 400 Sites
• Four divisions
• Music Logo
• Entertainment
• Kids and Family
• International
• Other products in use
• Verity K2
• Google Search Appliance

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Content At MTV Networks

• Video is the focus
• Challenges
• Small amounts of text
• Simple queries

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Why Solr?

• Originally a sorting solution, not a search
  solution.
• Used for search as well as data access.
• Some sites use hybrid approach spidering Solr

MTV Networks and Solr
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Configuration

• 15 sites
• 1.3 (with 1.4 DataImportHandler)
• 3-4 JBoss instances per site
• Volume varies with site, 10k to 1m queries per
  day.

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Collection Building Current
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Collection Building -- Future
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Fitting Solr to the Environment

• Monitoring/Reporting
• Performance
• Collection building
• Giving Content Creators Control
• Synonym Tool
• Keymatch
• Elevate

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Questions/Comments

• Contact
• Mike Rosencrantz
• mike_at_mtv.com