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 Kouizes-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
Why Haystack? Democratizing Search Relevance!
Doug turnbull on January 7, 2019
Why another search conference? Because search relevance shouldn't be locked behind obscure papers and walled gardens. It needs a community of practitioners to freely share solutions, open source tools, and best practices.
A Synonym By Any Other Name: From Alt. Labels to Knowledge Graphs
Doug turnbull on December 7, 2018
When people say they have 'synonyms' in their search engine, it can turn out to mean a lot of different things...
An Introduction to Search Quality
Max irwin on November 19, 2018
When considering improvements to search in a product or application it is necessary to have a vision of overall quality, which is a combination of three key areas: relevance, experience, and performance. This article explains all three at a high level and why they matter as a whole, and offers some tips to diagnose and attack a spectrum of common search quality issues.
Come see Doug at Learning to Rank- Search Relevance as a Machine Learning Problem
March 6th, 2019 | Charlottesville, VA
Search relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query.
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