Michael McCandless

MICHAEL MCCANDLESS has been building search engines for over a decade. In 1999, with three other people, he founded iPhrase Technologies, a startup providing user-centric enterprise search engine software, written in Python and C++. After IBM acquired iPhrase in 2005, Michael became involved in Lucene and started contributing patches, becoming a committer in 2006 and PMC member in 2008. Michael received his B.S., M.S and Ph.D. from MIT, and now lives in Lexington, MA along with his wonderful wife, Jane, and four delightful kids, Mia, Kyra, Joel and Kyle. Michael’s blog is at http://chbits.blogspot.com.

books by Michael McCandless

Lucene in Action, Second Edition
  • July 2010
  • ISBN 9781933988177
  • 532 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Application Development

When Lucene first appeared, this superfast search engine was nothing short of amazing. Today, Lucene still delivers. Its high-performance, easy-to-use API, features like numeric fields, payloads, near-real-time search, and huge increases in indexing and searching speed make it the leading search tool.

And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to effectively integrating search into your applications. This totally revised book shows you how to index your documents, including formats such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces you to searching, sorting, and filtering, and covers the numerous improvements to Lucene since the first edition. Source code is for Lucene 3.0.1.