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
Relevance Engineering is Here to Stay: Haystack EU 2018 Recap
Doug turnbull on October 21, 2018
I was privileged to participate in Haystack EU 2018 - relevance engineering as a discipline is here to stay, and just about every search & discovery team is scrambling to understand this new discipline.
Think AI will solve your search problems? Ask these questions first
Doug turnbull on October 19, 2018
This search stuff sounds like work - won't AI just solve all these problems soon?
The Missing Hello World for OpenNLP
Eric pugh on October 4, 2018
In 2012 I first saw OpenNLP, and was both excited by it, but also appalled by the documentation. I wrote this blog post in 2012, but turns out I never actually published it! So here it is, updated for OpenNLP 1.9.0!
Talk directly with Eric Pugh, our founder & CEO
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