"In 2004, Solr was created by Yonik Seeley at CNET Networks as an in-house project to add search capability for the company website."
I have no idea how I never knew that CNET created Solr! (Solr uses Lucene)
I have no idea how I never knew that CNET created Solr! (Solr uses Lucene)
There's an interesting connection here: Doug Cutting, perhaps best known as the creator of Hadoop, was the Chief Architect at Cloudera. Most people recognize Doug as the creator of Apache Hadoop, but he also created Lucene. In fact, Hadoop originated from a Lucene subproject called Nutch, which aimed to build a scalable web crawler.
The technology had many applications beyond a web crawler, of course, but that was the original use case.