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Lucene in Action, Second Edition
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Lucene in Action, Second Edition

by Michael McCandless, Otis Gospodnetic, Erik Hatcher
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
18h 11m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 14. Case study 3: LinkedIn

Adding facets and real-time search with Bobo Browse and Zoie

Contributed by JOHN WANG and JAKE MANNIX

LinkedIn.com is the largest social network for professionals in the world, with over 60 million users worldwide (as of March 2010), and has “people search” as a primary feature: users on the site have fully rich profiles that act as their public professional resume or curriculum vitae. A primary feature of the site is the ability to search for other users based on complex criteria, enabling use cases such as

  • A hiring manager who wants to find potential employees
  • Salespeople who want to find leads
  • Tech-savvy executives of all levels who want to locate subject-matter experts for consultation

Search for people ...

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