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iLocal Search: Find companies and services near you
For ilocal JTeam have completely rebuild their proprietary search solution using Enterprise Open Search technologies.
Business Overview
- ilocal is the fastest growing web search engine for companies and services in the Netherlands. In 2008, ilocal frequently passed its competitors in monthly website traffic
- Its database contains 1.09 million companies and 850,000 locations in the Netherlands only
- ilocal's business model is based on selling companies extra exposure within the search results
Business Challenge
- Create together with the ilocal team a custom-built search engine that replaces the existing proprietary solution at the core of the business
- Outperform the existing solution in terms of response time and accuracy of results
- Unique geo-location features needed to be included
- Tight deadline: get everything done in only 6 months
Solution Components
- Created a state of the art custom search solution, including custom built geo-location based features
- Daily rebuild of search index, guaranteeing up-to-date search results
- Transfer of knowledge and engineering practices to ilocal
- Agile software development process enabled continuous monitoring of progress
- First large-scale Solr and Lucene implementation in the Netherlands
Technology Components
- 100% Enterprise Java and fully open source
- Front end: JSP 2.x, AJAX, Spring MVC
- Middleware: Spring, Apache Solr, Lucene, J2EE 6 & Hibernate
- Application Server: Tomcat 6.0.x, MySQL 5.1, Linux
Business Benefits
- The new custom build in-house solution is technically superior and carries lower operating costs
- Provides a solid foundation for future enhancements
- Structurally reduces time-to-market since the ilocal development team can maintain and exend the solution themselves, e.g. ilocal Mobile
- Nominated best website 2008