As expected, Amazon have announced their fork of the Elasticsearch codebase following the recent changes to the licensing of the latter by Elastic. This sounds like a herculean effort,…
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…
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…
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, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to scale up search result rating using outsourcing & managed services
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…
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
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…
Pete the Search Product Manager finds out how to rate search results with Quepid to generate a judgement list
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – how does a relevance engineer learn how their client’s business works?
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – what is a ‘relevance engineer’ and what do they do?
Eric Pugh and René Kriegler recently spoke at ApacheCon @Home about Chorus, a reference implementation for ecommerce search. Chorus is based on Apache Solr (although with a little work…
