This is the mini search engine I built using solr and nodejs. Used webpages from LAtimes and Huffingtonpost for indexing. Please check instructions.pdf in repo to learn how to run this application on your machine.
News Data can be found at : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3A22b95zpllenhJLVRQcDdibFk
PS: All instructions are stated by assuming underlying Operating system in Ubuntu/Linux.