How can a search team gain more control of search?
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…
Podcasts about Ecommerce That I’m Listening To
These days I’m talking primarily to business leadership, marketing and merchandising teams about the impact of search on improving ecommerce. These teams have different concerns and demands than the…
What’s new in Querqy, the query preprocessor for Solr (and Elasticsearch)?
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….
Adding integration tests to a Solr plugin project
Thanks to Torsten Bøgh Köster for this guest post! When developing Solr plugins for the open source community (or your in-house Solr team) you’re faced with testing the plugin’s…
Solr vs Elasticsearch vs Vespa – what did we learn at The Great Search Engine Debate?
One of the most common questions we’re asked at OSC is ‘which search engine should I choose, Elasticsearch or Solr?’. Our web logs show consistently high traffic from Google…
Pete learns how to scale up search result rating
Pete, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to scale up search result rating using outsourcing & managed services
A call for a truly open Elasticsearch community
As I wrote only a few days ago, Elastic, the company formed by the creators of Elasticsearch, will be releasing future versions of this software under a non open…
Migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch [or OpenSearch] with this Playbook
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus
Is Elasticsearch no longer open source software?
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
A Solr performance debugging toolkit
Thanks to Matt Pearce for this guest post! We’ve recently been working with a large client who were having issues with their Solr cluster. Very occasionally, nodes in the…
Introducing the Show Only Rated toggle in Quepid
Introducing the Show Only Rated feature in Quepid, the relevancy tuning workbench
What is Search in the Omnichannel?
That’s right folks, we’re here to talk about the re-emerging big hype term: omnichannel. Specifically, I want to write a short post on why and how this changes what…