Lucene 2.9 Release Imminent »

Mark Miller reports that:

The third release candidate for Lucene 2.9 is about to hit and the final release is likely to be only days behind. Almost one year in the making, Lucene 2.9 is feature packed and progressively faster. With Solr 1.4 planning to release very shortly after 2.9, things are shaping up very nicely in Lucene land.

In anticipation of the Solr 1.4 release, Eric Pugh has announced that the first book on Solr, Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server, has been published and is available for purchase.

Estimating salaries by comparing job ads »

This is clever: job classified aggregator Indeed estimates a job’s salary when it lacks that data by comparing the text to ads that do have a salary posted.

When people search for jobs, they want to put in a salary floor. They don’t want to see jobs that don’t at least pay a certain amount. Problem is most job listings on the Internet don’t include salaries.

What Indeed did was built a system that estimates salaries on all jobs.

We use a proprietary methodology based on an analysis of similar job listings that include salaries. We start by extracting salaries from all job listings containing this information – about a fifth of the total – and then estimate salaries for the rest.

Example: CFO jobs in NYC that pay more than $200k per year