Haystack Agenda Announced!
Hey, you know you want to come to this awesome search relevance conference! We’ll have talks from companies like LexisNexis, Wikimedia Foundation, Snagajob, Lucidworks, and Elastic! Talks range from…
Hey, you know you want to come to this awesome search relevance conference! We’ll have talks from companies like LexisNexis, Wikimedia Foundation, Snagajob, Lucidworks, and Elastic! Talks range from…
Thanks so much to community members who let us know that Elasticsearch Learning to Rank did not work with Elastic Cloud/XPack Security. Today Elastic Learning to Rank 1.0.1 is…
In product meetings, when I advocate for customer retention – regular, repeat business from the customer over months/years – I sometimes get blank stares. Teams want to do everything…
Our mission is to empower the world’s best search teams. Search teams ultimately generate value for their organizations through better, smarter search. That is: relevance. Sadly relevance remains maddening!…
I screwed up! Mea Culpa. Let he who is without synonyms throw the first rock! In my talk Taxonomical Semantical Magical Search, I presented an index-time hypernym/hyponym expansion solution….
We reached a major milestone over the weekend! We released the first release candidate for version 1.0 of Elasticsearch Learning to Rank. While our partners Wikimedia and Snagajob are…
A common theme in software development is the tension between: Fixing painful bugs now!! Creating tools & practices that let us fix bugs faster (though at some theoretical time…
Learning to Rank turns search into a machine learning problem. In this article, I want to explore what makes search distinct from other machine learning problems. How does one…
The key to really understanding search, recommendations, and other ‘product matching’ systems is microeconomics. Say what!?!? No hear me out. In this article, I want to challenge you to…
In complex Solr relevance work, I find I create a fair amount of function queries to boost & balance results. Solr function queries look like Excel queries from hell….
In my role as search consultant, I spend a lot of time helping organizations pick the right search technology. Will it be Solr or Elasticsearch? Algolia or Swifttype? Endeca…
Last time, I created a simple linear model using three ranking signals. Using TMDB movie data, I came up with a naive model that computed a relevance score from…