Stepwise Date Boosting in Solr
When you want to boost on recency of content (ie more recently published documents before older ones), the Solr function query documentation gives you a basic date boost: boost=recip(ms(NOW,mydatefield),3.16e-11,1,1)…
When click scoring can hurt search relevance – towards better signals processing in search
Have you heard of “click scoring” or “click tracking”? In the context of search click scoring is the method whereby you collect statistics on where users click in their…
Lets Stop Saying “NoSQL”
NoSQL to describe a database makes about as much sense as “NoSedan” to describe a car I say the word “NoSQL” a lot. When I say NoSQL, I tend…
Solving data “variety” with Postgress NoSQL Extensions
Raise your hand if you’ve heard the three “Vs” of Big Data? Velocity – your query/updates are exceptionally fast or large. Your processing the entire twitter feed. Volume –…
September Chock Full of Talks (Dougtember?)
I somehow managed to line up a speaking gig for every week in September! I hope youll join me on this insane marathon. Ill be talking about topics key…
Introducing Splainer – The Open Source Search Sandbox That Tells You Why
One piece of feedback that has consistently come with our Quepid search testing tool is the need to understand “why” search results come back the order they do. In…
Using Quepid to Improve Relevancy of Advance Auto Parts Intranet Search
Recently, Advance Auto Parts contacted OSC to improve the search relevancy of their intranet application, Starting Line. Starting Line serves as the knowledge base for every store employee, so…
Improving The Camel Solr Component
Weve been using Apache Camel a fair amount recently as our ingestion pipeline of choice. It presents a fairly nice DSL for wiring together different data sources, performing transformations,…
Reindexing Collections with Solrs Cursor Support
When a Solr schema changes, us Solr devs know whats next – a large reindex of all of our data to capture any changes to index-time analysis. When we…
What is Search Relevance?
Have you ever tried a site’s search and been underwhelmed with the accuracy of the results? Do you find yourself feeling frustrated and leaving when the search doesn’t return…
Sponsoring DrupalCon NA 2014!
See everyone in Austin! More-and-more were noticing the impact of Drupal in our clients businesses. Theyre able to deliver quality content and apps fast with Drupal. Thats why were…
Drupal Devs – Don’t Undervalue Relevant Site Search
Bring your search problems to our booth at DrupalCon! Drupal developers: raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation. You’re ready to deploy your app. You’ve developed…