Filtering Apache Solr search results based on dynamic fields

You may often have content in Drupal that should not appear for certain user roles. There are many ways to accomplish this in the CMS, but restricting them from search results is often overlooked. If you are using Apache Solr for your search engine, you can use the apachesolr module's hooks to determine what search results are returned.

World Bank Open API Data: Now in Google Search Results

Earlier this year we blogged about the launch of a new Open API, which Phase2 built for The World Bank. The Open API allows third-party developers and organizations to freely query World Bank's largest dataset containing world economic and business indicators and create all kinds of interesting mash-ups.

Today Google announced the addition of the API data to its search results.

B[r]ing it on, Google! Microsoft is Back!

Microsoft's new "decision engine" Bing just launched this morning. What does it mean for the industry? Should Google be concerned? Do users care? Is it just buzz or real?

Tagging: Why we use it and where it's going

Tagging is one of the most widely-implemented functions in all of web software. It's truly ubiquitous in its ability to solve data linking issues, and knows little boundaries in the type of data it's linking. You see it used in news sites to denote commonality across the subject of articles, and you see it in commercial sites like Amazon to lump together products into different areas. In fact, it's quite difficult to imagine situations where tagging wouldn't make sense.

Check out Read Write Web's Top 100 Product List

Yesterday, Read Write Web posted their Top 100 list for 2008. Lots of interesting tools and products on the list, including one we've been working with quite a bit: Calais.

If Solr Suddenly Stopped Working on Your Drupal Site

Ok, so you can swear Solr was working just fine on your Drupal website. But suddenly it does not! You made sure nobody messed with your install and you do not believe in goblins. What to do?