ElasticSearch is an open source, distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud on top of Lucene. ElasticSearch is schema less, just toss it a typed JSON document and it will automatically index it. Search can be executed either using a simple, Lucene based query string or using an extensive JSON based search query DSL. [...]

Get most out of search box on your website by adding auto-complete faceted search queries. VisualSearch.js does it easily for your website by enhancing ordinary search boxes with the ability to autocomplete faceted search queries. Specify the facets for completion, along with the complete-able values for any facet. You can retrieve the search query as a [...]

If you are looking for a free search solution based on open standards with unlimited support for documents, SearchBlox is just the right solution for you. It is a complete Enterprise Search Server Solution built on Apache Lucene – the leading open source search library. SearchBlox provides all the features and even more when compared to [...]

If you are looking for a free charting control for you websites or web applications, the options are in plenty. Google Charts API, for instance, is a great tool. But sometimes you want to play in your own style and do more than what these solutions would allow you. Fortunately, you can find a way [...]

To put it simple, Google +1 button is a new dimension of social bookmarking. It adds your favorite websites, recipes, videos to your profile (something like Stumbleupon and other bookmarking services). It aggregates popularity of products, services, website etc. (something like Facebook ‘Like’ button). Google +1 service gathers all this data (popularity, favorites/likes) to recommend useful and [...]

For any site, Search Engine ranking is an important aspect to get traffic. As a blogger, I can understand the worth of getting listed in first 10 results against a Google search. There exists many strategies to improve website Search Engine Ranking (Create and join groups, join social sites like Facebook and Twitter, join forums, [...]

Google URL Shortener has just launched its own website. The feature worth mentioning is that you can view statistics on all URLs you have shortened. The statistics include referres, traffic details and visitor profiles. Google URL Shortner is: Stable: Nearly 100% uptime Secure: Automatic spam detection based on the same type of filtering technology we use in [...]

Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. For example, the “90%” contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger. This is useful for ensuring that important parts of a page’s user interface are visible by [...]

Google, the search engine giant, is now taking initiatives with fonts and just launched: Google Font Directory: It provides high-quality open source web fonts. You can browse their catalog of available fonts and copy the code required to use them on your web page. These fonts also support HTML5 and CSS3 styling options like drop [...]

jMaps is very handy jQuery plugin to Manage Google maps. jMaps provides a really easy API to create and manage multiple google maps on any page.