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…
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…
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Solr vs Elasticsearch! There’s been a TON of posts. But has anyone ever compared…
There’s something new cooking in how Lucene scores text. Instead of the traditional “TF*IDF,” Lucene just switched to something called BM25 in trunk. That means a new scoring formula…
Carefully prune the bonsai tree with Quepid for Elasticsearch 🙂 Good news! We’re proud to announce our test-driven search toolbench Quepid now supports Elasticsearch. Quepid solves fundamental problems that…
I love stringing together custom analyzers to solve my search problems. Analyzers control how search and document text are transformed, step-by-step into individual terms for matching. This in turn…
No need for analysis paralysis! 🙂 Get Relevant Search today and use offer code turnbullmu for 38% off all formats! In Chapter 4 of Relevant Search, we talk a…
Quepid: the missing ingredient in your relationship with your Solr and Elasticsearch. Just like true love, better search need not be so complicated When I first got involved in…
Do you know about Splainer? It’s our handy-dandy, free and open source tool for developers working with Solr search results. In addition to Quepid, it’s become my favorite go…
We’re pleased to announce that Chapters 4 and 5 are available for early access for Relevant Search! Please read and give us feedback. This is early access for a…
I often want to intercept the complete Solr updates sent to Solr in a format I can use offline. Clients have complex ingestion systems. I shouldn’t need to have…
Something amazing happened today on our Quepid project. We did a code review. Not some formal thing whereby we sat together in a conference room with someone presenting hundreds…
I was privileged to be hosted in Cambridge UK by our buddies at Flax two weeks ago. During my time over in the UK, I got a chance to…