Chapter 2. Building a search index
This chapter covers
- Performing basic index operations
- Boosting documents and fields during indexing
- Indexing dates, numbers, and sortable fields
- Advanced indexing topics
So you want to search files stored on your hard disk, or perhaps search your email, web pages, or even data stored in a database. Lucene can help you do that. But before you can search something, you’ll have to index it, and Lucene will help you do that as well, as you’ll learn in this chapter.
In chapter 1, you saw a simple indexing example. This chapter goes further and teaches you about index updates, parameters you can use to tune the indexing process, and more advanced indexing techniques that will help you get the most out of Lucene. ...
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