We have recently migrated topgifter.com from Google commerce search to Solr on Amazon cloud. We now support google commerce like auto suggestion features, faceting, search caching using solr. It was a great experience migrating about 3 million items to Solr. If any of the customers need help with migrating Google commerce search to solr, please feel free to email us at info@kosmex.com
Solr Cloud
At kosmex, we have supported our customer topgifter.com a gift shopping portal migrating to the new solr cloud platform.
Migration to solr cloud for topgifter has given them capabiility to scale and increase the content on the site. We have been very happy with performance of solr cloud. We specially like the auto sharding, distribution and replication features of solr. We would be happy to help any customers who would be interested in considering migrating to solr cloud for search needs. Please email us at info@kosmex.com for more information
Google Compute Engine
Google has launched compute engine. Before launching Google Compute Engine, businesses had strict limitations and a high learning curve. With the launch of Google Compute Engine, now customers can use google cloud and launch software on the platform.
Instances on google cloud, are less expensive compared to amazon cloud. Compute Engine is as powerful as AWS and is less expensive. You can see some comparision at
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/virtual/240003042?pgno=1
Group Referral Software
With a simple java script into their pages, retailers can now decrease customer acquisition cost, increase customer loyalty and decrease the shopping costs.
Maansu.com, a leading Indian retailer is very happy with the results of grouping platform. Please see the testimony of the CEO of maansu.com on their blog at http://maansu.com/blog/?p=
Please call us at 4086631442 or email us at info@firstradius.com to see how we can help you.
Autosuggest using Solr
As a consultant to enrich the end user experience on maansu.com, we are working on implementing auto suggest feature on maansu. At maansu, we leverage the power of Lucene to make the user experience better. When we had to implement auto suggest, we leveraged the Termscomponent handler for auto suggest. Thanks to open sourcing of solr, we a small band of engineers were able to provide the complicated feature of auto suggest in couple of days.
Some other reference url’s to get this feature working are http://www.mattweber.org/
Email Marketing App using App Engine
You can see a free email marketing application using Google App Engine and Java at http://sendaps.appspot.com/
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