Obtaining an IndexSearcher
Having reviewed the indexing cycle in Lucene, let's now turn our attention towards search. Keep in mind that indexing is a necessary evil you have to go through to make your text searchable. We take all the pain to customize a search engine now, so we can obtain good search experiences for the users. This will be well worth the effort when users can find information quickly and seamlessly. A well-tuned search engine is the key to every search application.
Consider a simple search scenario where we have an index built already. User is doing research on Lucene and wants to find all Lucene-related documents. Naturally, the term Lucene will be used in a search query. Note that Lucene leverages an inverted index (see the ...
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