How to train a search team – and what does it cost?
What are the options for training a search team? With news of a brand new training option from OSC
Approaches to field boost tuning with Learning to Rank
A guest post from the Metarank team write on field boosts, Learning to Boost and Learning to Rank
What is vector search? A guide to the new frontier
Vector search & neural search – what exactly are these new techniques, what can they do and what do you need to consider when implementing them?
Solr Contributor Bootcamp
Do you want to become a contributor to Solr, the open source search server from the Apache Foundation, but don’t know where to start? Here’s your chance! Eric Pugh…
And Then There Were Three – OpenSearch comes of age
OpenSearch joins Elasticsearch and Apache Solr as a serious option for powering search – but why is it different and how might the rise of vector search change 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…
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…
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
Haystack 2021 – The Search Relevance Event returns
Haystack, the search relevance conference is back on September 29th 2021 with in-person and online options – come and join us!
Building the Search Community with Relevance Slack
This week Relevance Slack, which OSC created a few years ago, hit the milestone of 1750 users. Relevance Slack was founded to give the growing search relevance community a…
Welcome René Kriegler to our growing European search team
René Kriegler joins OSC to head up our e-commerce search practice and our new European office
But why can’t you start on Monday? How not to jump feet first into a search project
How you shouldn’t jump feet first into a search project and how OSC uses our Proven Process to ensure success