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?
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…
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….
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…
As I almost exclusively help folks with Solr/Elasticsearch search relevance, I often encounter the “giant list of synonyms” that a client has. This list often creates odd side effects…
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…
Johannes Peter introduces query expansion in the first part of a series on fundamentals of query rewriting
Welcome back, dear reader, to the BERT search experience! The thing on most people’s minds when they think about search using BERT is “semantic search”. But search is more…
Pete, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to curate the list of search results for a single query using Querqy
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….