See conference video - http://www.lucidimagination.com/devzone/events/conferences/revolution/2011 While it remains challenging to build best practice search applications, core search technology has become commoditized. Open source Lucene/Solr represents the best form of that commodity, as good as or better than any commercial search technology while also providing the cost, control and flexibility advantages of open source. In this talk, we’ll look at how past challenges in search were met and new ones evolved, and the place of Lucene/Solr in that evolution.