We write the books on search.
Our team are leading authors of books and reports about search topics. While at OSC, Doug Turnbull wrote the book Relevant Search, to help teams build smarter Elasticsearch and Solr applications. Our co-founder Eric Pugh helped write the very first book on Solr and our team contribute to the annual free Search Insights reports from the Search Network, an independent group of search professionals. Daniel Wrigley co-wrote the only book on Solr in German and Charlie Hull co-authored an academic text on enterprise search (available as a free PDF). Lead author of AI-Powered Search, Trey Grainger, recently joined OSC as a Technical Advisor.
Our Publications
AI-Powered Search
AI-Powered Search dives deep into techniques like semantic search query understanding, signals boosting and personalized search, learning to rank, knowledge graph learning, multimodal and hybrid search, vector embeddings, question…
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Relevant Search
Learn the secrets of building intuitive, targeted search with examples for Elasticsearch & Solr
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Searching the Enterprise
We co-authored a discussion of enterprise search with a large list of references. Download the free PDF.
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Einführung in Apache Solr
The first book on Apache Solr in German. Offers a substantiated and practice-oriented introduction into this search technology.
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A Guide to Better Ecommerce Site Search
A free guide to better ecommerce site search with a checklist, common causes and simple solutions
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Search Insights 2022
A free collection of essays on topics including taxonomies, text extraction, vector/neural search and multilingual search
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Search Insights 2021
A free collection of essays on topics including autocomplete, ecommerce search, information quality and the data driven search team
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Search Insights 2020
A free collection of essays on topics including natural language search, query log analysis and relevance skills.
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Search Insights 2019
A free collection of essays on topics including relevance engineering, search team skills and enterprise search.
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Search Insights 2018
A free collection of essays on topics including open source search, relevance and budgeting search projects.
Learn MoreOwn Your Search
Through our Proven Process, we assess your systems and performance, recommend improvements based on your search and business goals, and consult with and train your team. When search is critical to your organization, it’s our mission to make sure you own your search.