Adventures in Cross-Site Scripting
Dont cross the streams! One big component of making our search relevancy tool Quepid simple to use is the ability to just paste in a Solr search URL and…
Search Quality is about effective Collaboration*
*and Effective Collaboration is about Testing Sales expert not happy about the quality of her search. Shed like a better way to collaborate than yelling at the search devs….
OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…
What is Test Driven Search Relevancy?
During a challenging search project, we realized that we were simply trying to accomplish too much. The demands to create relevant search results were intense. The deadline looming. Presented…
Quepid – Stop shipping broken searches
Let’s face it, returning good search results means making money. To this end, we’re often hired to tune search to ensure that search results are as close as possible…
Prototype Angular UIs Without A Backend
So youve got an AngularJS UI built out, but youll need a fleshed-out backend before being able to really take it for a test drive, right? Actually, it turns…
Migrating American Medical Association’s search to Solr
Our client, Silverchair Information Systems, recently completed a successful migration of the American Medical Association’s search over to Solr. Leveraging Silverchair’s semantic platform, weve helped migrate Silverchairs SCM platform…
Instant Search with Solr and AngularJS
Previously, we gave an example of a super simple search results widget that utilized jsonp and AngularJS. Since then, we’ve polished our Angular skills quite a bit. Enough so,…
Four reasons we’re really excited about FoundationDB
As you might have heard, FoundationDB became publicly available this week. As we’ve discussed in the past, we’re very excited here at OpenSource Connections about this emerging database. After…
Name Search in Solr
Remember the good ole days of “Alpha by Author”? Searching names is a pretty common requirement for many applications. Searching by book authors, for example, is a pretty crucial…
Improve search relevancy by telling Solr exactly what you want
Please find my piece of hay! To be successful, (e)dismax relies on avoiding a tricky problem with it’s scoring strategy. As we’ve discussed, dismax scores documents by taking…
Getting Dissed by Dismax – Why your incorrect assumptions about dismax/edismax are hurting search relevancy
In the competition between field scores, theres little fairness. When you learn about the dismax query parser for the first time, one of the first things you learn about…