Several conversations with clients I’ve had recently have made me think about the issue of control when it comes to search quality improvement: specifically, how much control a search…
We’ve recently released Querqy 5 for Solr – a good time to have a look at this new major version and at other exciting features that were implemented recently….
I screwed up! Mea Culpa. Let he who is without synonyms throw the first rock! In my talk Taxonomical Semantical Magical Search, I presented an index-time hypernym/hyponym expansion solution….
There were some questions floating around the Solr mailing lists about multi-term synonyms and a few notable answers are as follows. The short version is, it’s complicated and every…
Many Solr teams have gotten stumped on the new sow=false behavior. To review, sow=false (split-on-whitespace=false) changes how the query is parsed. With sow=false the query is parsed using each…
You have probably heard us talk about Solr multiterm synonyms a lot! It’s a big problem that prevents a lot of organizations from getting reasonable search relevance out of…
Last time on the Young and the Synonomous we discussed how users often think of key phrases like “heart attack” or “cardiac arrest” as single terms. We demonstrated how…
There is a very common need for multi-term synonyms. Weve actually run across several use cases among our recent clients. Consider the following examples: Ecommerce: If a customer searches…
Pete’s run into a very common problem in e-commerce search: when his users search for ‘laptop’ the first page of results is laptop accessories – how does he fix this?
There’s been some discussion lately on what the behavior of synonyms should be in Solr and Elasticsearch. As you know, this is one of our favorite topics. At the…
As much as anyone I’m a fan of resurrecting trends and memes and pretending it’s cool. In that vein dear friends, I’ve exhumed the venerable “Falsehoods Programmers Believe” party…
Does your team use Apache Solr, but struggle to deliver relevant, high-quality search results? ‘Think Like a Relevance Engineer’ (TLRE) is a 2-part Solr training that gives your team…