I am reminded of the crowds at Canadian national curling events. There's always at least one really loud person in the upper seats that yells out "POLAR POWER!" then pulls a string through a coffee can to imitate the sound of a moose.
I kid you not. God bless this country.
Anyway.
For our latest project at $work, we decided to use Solr for indexing and searching. There is a Solr.pm on search.cpan.org, but I wasn't overly thrilled with the overall design.
So, in TIMTOWTDI style, I've created WebService::Solr. As added bonuses, I've created a model for Catalyst and a hook into DBIx::Class::Indexed.
I'm not 100% sold on the way I have things designed, but I've had some people show some interest in the module, so I hope to get some feedback soon.