Relevant Search, Published!
Buy now with a discount! Use offer code mlturnbulllt to get 50% off for a limitted time! Elasticsearch and Solr devs take note: our book, Relevant Search is out….
Interpreting Google Analytics for Site Search
This article provides some guidance on understanding user behavior using what’s provided in Google Analytics. Specifically, it examines the statistics provided under the “search terms” page, found under “Behavior”…
Recommender Systems 101: Basket Analysis
You’ve probably seen “buyers also bought” recommendations. To drive more sales, you highlight items that are frequently purchased together. For example, the screenshot below shows “frequently bought together” for…
Thoughts on Algolia (vs Solr & Elasticsearch)
After getting cranky on one Algolia blog post, and having a Search Disco episode with Julien Lemoine CTO of Algolia, I’m left fascinated by the solution. Algolia, so…
Splainer: The Elasticsearch Relevance Sandbox That Tells You Why
Have you looked at a scoring explain out of Elasticsearch? Perhaps you’ve had a tricky relevance problem. You’ve needed to debug Elasticsearch’s scoring. Unfortunately the relevance scoring for Elasticsearch…
Run Installed Elasticsearch from Your Shell
Got Elasticsearch installed on an Ubuntu/Debian box? Want to run it directly from the command line? It’s handy to recreate how Elasticsearch actually runs on your box. You might…
Semantic Search with Latent Semantic Analysis
A few years ago John Berryman and I experimented with integrating Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) with Solr to build a semantically aware search engine. Recently I’ve polished that work…
Getting Lost in The Amazon: How North Face Site Search secured my sale
Bad site search can halt an e-commerce sale in its tracks. To show that, I wanted to share what happened with a recent purchase of mine. In this tale…
How to Migrate Safely from Google Search Appliance to Solr
It’s terrifying to contemplate switching search engines. Unfortunately, Google Search Appliance is going away fast. Google hasn’t left much time to get off their platform: they close the doors…
Learning What’s Relevant Without The Search
How Predictive Ranking using Elo’s System can be used to understand marketplace trends for re-ranking search results
Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy: Battle of the Query DSLs
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Last time on The Young and The RESTful, aka Elasticsearch vs Solr, we took…
What Does an OSC Search Relevancy Tuneup Look Like?
So you’ve stood up Solr or Elasticsearch. Your search app is humming along. However, how do you know your search understands what your users are asking for? Users are…