Own your search
Smart search is core to your value: don't outsource it.
We help your org innovate in search and relevance. Whether it's Solr or Elasticsearch - let us empower your team!
We wrote the book
Good search understands a user's intent, not just what they type.
We wrote Relevant Search to help teams build smarter Elasticsearch and Solr applications.
One of the best and most engaging technical books I've ever read. — Trey Grainger, Lucidworks
Will help you solve real-world search relevance problems for Lucene-based search engines — Dimitrios Kouzis-Loukas, Bloomberg
Pioneers in machine learning
We built Elasticsearch Learning to Rank, which powers search at Yelp, Wikipedia, Snag, and others.
Since deploying learning to rank, we’ve seen a net 32% increase in conversion metrics across our historically lowest performing use-cases. — Jason Kowalewski, Sr Director of Engineering at Snag
Learning to rank can’t stay hidden away in obscure academic journals or multi-million dollar products. We’re making this stuff accessible to all search teams: opening up the black box for everyone to use”. — Doug Turnbull - OpenSource Connections CTO
We have the tools
We built Quepid, a search testing platform that takes the guesswork out of search relevancy.
Do NOT attempt a search project without it. — John Bickerstaff
Just want to understand why results are showing up in your search?
We support the community
We run Haystack, the Search Relevance conference. We sponsor MICES, the E-Commerce Search conference.
We host a Slack Channel where practitioners support each other and share solutions.
We empower some of the world's best search teams at:
Our publications
Relevant Search »
Learn the secrets of building intuitive, targeted search.
Elasticsearch course »
Dive into Elasticsearch and AngularJS in this video course.
Solr Enterprise Server »
We cowrote the first book on Solr. Now in its third edition.
The blog and other happenings
Silos Are the Enemy of AI Powered Search
Doug turnbull on May 22, 2020
Often organizational, not technical, challenges stymie machine learning adoption for search teams.
Haystack Is Back! Go virtual for relevant search talks, workshops, discussions & training
Charlie hull on May 18, 2020
Haystack Is Back! Weekly online Haystack LIVE talks, teaming up with Berlin Buzzwords and MICES for an awesome conference week and a whole raft of online training now available
Building an Effective Search Team: the key to great search & relevancy
Charlie hull on May 14, 2020
To build great search, you need a great search team. Here's how you can define what roles you'll need, collaborate effectively and some pointers on how to find the right people.
Come see Doug at Hello LTR - Learning to Rank Remote Training
June 2nd-June 5th, 2020 9am-1pm EDT / 2pm-6pm BST | Online
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance. Using an open source search engine, we see our models come to life, see the pitfalls of letting machines control relevance, and work to mitigate those pitfalls. From Hello World to Learning to Rank Lessons you can avoid learning the hard way. See how you can apply open source tooling to optimize your search results with machine learning. Ideal for production focused data scientists, relevance engineers, machine learning engineers, or search developers.
Talk directly with Eric Pugh, our founder & CEO
(434) 466-1467 | [email protected]
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