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Everything in this article is terrifying and, somehow, what scared me the most was how much Internet is actually the world for so many people born not that later than myself. It is incredible how fast this change happened. Also, I know my role as a professional is doing nothing but making that a bigger issue.

As a side note: bullying (cyber or not) is not the same in all countries. In my hometown, when I was growing up and we were not that penetrated by american culture yet, nothing like this would happen. The worst thing possible was a light fist fight.

I don't agree that twitter popularity lies on how easy it is to publish on it but in the fact that it establishes a reading contract. I know exactly how much time reading a single tweet will take me so I can read them in many circumstances. That's why I think apps like TwitLonger make no sense.

The point is not to remove a functionality but to further constrain a contract (and enforce it).

People have complained about the lack of originality from the beginning of times. Please stop writing about it unless you have something new to say.

I think your parent was being meta-sarcastic. You have to keep up with the new forms in the internet.

It's absolutely amazing how fast you managed to get it running. You're awesome.

IndexTank right now supports preffix search, stemming and a basic implementation of a Did You Mean feature. Regarding languages, it supports tokenization for every western language, and not long ago, we added support for CJK too.

It is not exactly built ON Lucene. It reuses very specific constructs. The main one is the structure that holds the comprised index. And that is only used for the long term index. The realtime part of the index has been written for IndexTank exclusively.

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.

Michael, I'm Ignacio, from IndexTank, we exchanged some emails. Come to our website's live chat so we can think of a workaround for any problems you're experiencing with our whims :)

We don't deny the service no matter how far beyond the cap you go. In case the cap is overpassed very often, we just contact the user.

The 1k cap for the 50k doc plan is old, we will be upping that significantly. What would be a number of queries per day that would make you comfortable?

Tweaking relevance is not super-easy with Solr. We designed IndexTank to have a very simple way to play with ranking. You can modify your formulas in your dashboard or through the API and see the results order change in real time.

I really love what you got here. I'd be happy to help you try out IndexTank and make it better. It would really take the Solr configuration burden off of you.

We may be needing Sheldon's sarcasm sign after all...

I was the Mechanical Turk (not in the "amazon" sense of the words) behind the Olark in that conversation. I was never instructed in what to say when we get a question from a customer. We only have to follow three simple laws, in a specific order: never injure a human being, obey orders by human beings and protect our own existence. That's all.

But, hey, saying "how can I help you?" sounded right to me, so I use it often. Since the blog post we're getting contacts through Olark testing our response times. We're still pretty fast, and we're still passing turing tests!

That's indeed very interesting. Linguistic relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) is IMHO one of the most appealing approaches because it seeks to reveal the mysteries I'm interested about when it comes to linguistics. A very good reference for this topic, in this aspect, is Lakoff and Johnson's book on the 'domestic' metaphors: "Metaphors We Live By" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor). They illustrate how the crystalized metaphors in each language show the underlying cultural ways of molding the reality that is presented equally to each culture. (BTW, I have a major in spanish linguistics, hence my interest, hence my poor english)