Dogfights in Open Source Search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
I’ve had some interesting conversations over the last few months around the three big hitters of open source search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Solr is the old dog in…
Lead Author of “AI-Powered Search” Trey Grainger joins OSC team
The Next Generation of Search at OpenSource Connections In 2016 Manning published Relevant Search, co-written by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman. Unlike most books on the subject of ‘search’…
Haystack US 2024 – a review by the winners of the Hughes Scholarship
A review of Haystack US 2024, the search relevance conference, by the three winners of the Hughes Scholarship.
How to get the best from a search conference (updated)
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from them
Announcing the Hughes Scholarship for Haystack US 2024
Announcing the Hughes Scholarship to assist those at an early stage of their search & AI careers to attend Haystack conferences.
A reality check for LLMs: access control and other lessons from enterprise search
How do you manage access control & data quality when building AI-powered enterprise search? A reality check
Learning to Measure AI-Powered Search with Vectara
How we worked with AI-based search and retrieval augmented generation platform Vectara to evaluate and measure their engine – and added it to Quepid!
Building AI? Learn from the era of Big Data & ask a search expert
Enterprises and others building AI face some difficult choices – but there are already many with skills and experience to help!
Is Llama 2 open source? No – and perhaps we need a new definition of open…
Meta have released their new Llama 2 large language model to great fanfare – but it’s not open source as they say. Why does this matter?
Berlin Buzzwords 2023: AI injects new energy into the search for solutions
Berlin Buzzwords 2023 featured talks on search with AI, scaling, MLOps, vectorizing your search engine and which search engine to use
A Search Hackday at Haystack US 2023
Lucene bugs, More Like This, ChatGPT, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and MongoDB Atlas Search – just some of the things we worked on at our Search Hackday
Minimizing the risks of a search migration project
A search migration project can be risky – how can you identify & mitigate those risks with measurement, a great team and expert help?