LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by rksprst » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:35 PM UTC

LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank
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Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by veb » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

Just got the email. Congrats guys! You're one of my favorite start-ups, and I'm really glad to see you guys succeed.

When's the party? :-)

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by rksprst » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:40 PM UTC

Great to see a fellow startup get acquired.

But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then. This is great for the IndexTank team, but screws all of their customers (of which I am one).

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by nostromo » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:41 PM UTC

Super happy for you guys, congrats!! :)

Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by mariano » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:41 PM UTC

Muy contento por la noticia :)

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by devinfoley » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

I suppose this means that LinkedIn is moving away from Lucene NRT Search?

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by rksprst » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #4

Super happy for you guys, congrats!! :) Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(

Yep, founders+investors win. Customers lose.

I guess that's the new way to run a business. Exit > customers.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by nzadrozny » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:50 PM UTC

Congrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition.

Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted service at http://websolr.com/. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and going on two years old. And we intend to be around for a while!

Feel free to hit me up with questions!

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by nachopg » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:51 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #4

Super happy for you guys, congrats!! :) Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(

It is not like that. Check our FAQ out: https://indextank.com/documentation/faq2. We're talking to several interested parties who would like to take over the service.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Post by omfg » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 9:52 PM UTC

Can someone list some alternatives to IndexTank? We rely on them pretty heavily and this is going to leave us, and I imagine quite a few other companies, in a bind.