Lets Stop Saying ‘Cognitive Search’
I consume a lot of search materials: blogs, webinars, papers, and marketing collateral. There’s a consistent theme that crops up over the years: buzzwords! I understand why this happens,…
I consume a lot of search materials: blogs, webinars, papers, and marketing collateral. There’s a consistent theme that crops up over the years: buzzwords! I understand why this happens,…
Did you miss Haystack? This summer, we’ll be fulfilling our mission of empowering search teams, showing you how it’s done with 100% open source tools, by holding a full…
Recently while experimenting with word2vec-based features with Learning to Rank, I was exploring using collocations to improve the accuracy of my embeddings. If you read the original word2vec paper…
I used to fall into a trap that many search teams do. Faced with a seemingly consequential choice, with two products that seem to be fairly similar, it’s easy…
We’re proud to be putting on another Haystack in late April. But why? A few people have asked me why we need another search conference? What’s the purpose behind…
There’s been some discussion lately on what the behavior of synonyms should be in Solr and Elasticsearch. As you know, this is one of our favorite topics. At the…
Thanks Flax and Rene Kriegler for partnering to plan a tremendous Haystack EU event in early October. It was gratifying to see the relevance community come together. I love…
It’s understandable to be frustrated with search. You’ve probably heard someone like OSC lecturing you on relevance best practices, taxonomies, metrics, measurement, and more. You’ve probably thought “wow that’s…
We wanted Solr to use its ability to do subphrase matching (pf2, pf3) to procedurally generate richer, contiguous highlighting snippets. Unfortunately, we reached a dead end in our efforts…
I am a big proponent of Solr and Elasticsearch search engines BUT… … they are frameworks. A bag of tools. I can teach you how they fit together in…
Many organizations find relevance testing frustrating. Often we start consulting engagements and the first problem we have to solve is “how do we test search relevance?” In this article…
Many Solr teams have gotten stumped on the sow=false behavior introduced in Solr 7. To review, sow=false (split-on-whitespace=false) changes how the query is parsed. With sow=false the query is…