Apache Lucene

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a standard foundation for production search applications.

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Image: Dustin Haver, Apache License 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.