Apache Solr 9.0 Released
Apache Solr committer Kevin Risden updates us on Solr 9, now more lightweight and with vector search capabilities
Using Modern NLP Models from Apache OpenNLP with Solr
The topic of this blog post was the subject of the Searching for the Right Words: Bringing NLP to Apache Solr through ONNX and Apache OpenNLP talk at the…
Haystack US 2022 – juggling relevance in a hybrid search world
A few weeks ago we ran our flagship US conference Haystack, the first real in-person event since April 2019 (I’m sure I don’t need to tell you why!). It’s…
How to make Quepid talk to your .NET Search API
By Atita Arora (OpenSource Connections), Bego Terzimustafic & Mark Johnson (Emerson Ecologics) In the e-commerce business, there are several factors directly or indirectly affecting your success. A smooth UI…
Filtering results by query patterns with Regular Expressions and Querqy
Eric shows how to use Regular Expressions to spot query patterns and filter result lists with Querqy
Chorus, now also for Elasticsearch!
Building your own e-commerce search with Elasticsearch just got easier In June 2020 the first release of Chorus was announced at Berlin Buzzwords by Eric Pugh, Johannes Peter, René…
Why we set up a MICES in the US – and why we think that you should attend
MICES the e-commerce search event returns in June 2022 to Berlin – and there’s a new MICES in the US in April
Autonomy and IBM Watson – clever marketing doesn’t always win in the end
This week brought two news items that reminded those of us with long memories of some of the more egregious examples of over-marketing search technology. One is about a…
Building a Search Technology Radar
In September 2021 as part of the Haystack conference we solicited ideas from the community on what the future technologies for search looks like, to build a Search Technology Radar
How Open Source can drive Sustainability – a COP26 fringe event
A review of the Open Technology Sustainability Day at COP26 and how OSC sponsored an Open Source Award
Fundamentals of query rewriting (part 1): introduction to query expansion
Johannes Peter introduces query expansion in the first part of a series on fundamentals of query rewriting
The BERT Search Experience
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…