When Zero Search Results is the right answer (& how to measure this in Quepid)
Sometimes a query should produce zero search results – but how do we score this correctly in Quepid, the search relevance workbench?
So you want better OpenSearch documentation?
Eric Pugh and Heather Halter discuss how we can improve OpenSearch documentation after a Lightning Talk at OpenSearchCon EU
What we learned about tracking user behavior at Haystack & OpenSearchCon
Here’s what people at two recent conferences thought about UBI, an open source solution for tracking user behavior we’re working on with the OpenSearch team
New Quepid Features
New Quepid features include improved user interfaces, APIs and the ability to work with any search backend, plus new metrics including Jaccard similarity
Pete establishes a Baseline Relevance Metric
On his continuing quest to build superior e-commerce search, Pete the Product Owner establishes a baseline relevance metric
Filtering results by query patterns with Regular Expressions and Querqy
Eric shows how to use Regular Expressions to spot query patterns and filter result lists with Querqy
Building a Search Technology Radar
In September 2021 as part of the Haystack conference we solicited ideas from the community on what the future technologies for search looks like, to build a Search Technology Radar
Pete learns how to curate search results for a single query
Pete, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to curate the list of search results for a single query using Querqy
Podcasts about Ecommerce That I’m Listening To
These days I’m talking primarily to business leadership, marketing and merchandising teams about the impact of search on improving ecommerce. These teams have different concerns and demands than the…
Solr Backup – a simple walk through of Backup and Restore of a Solr Collection
Steps for backing up and restoring a Solr collection using the Collections API
I Became a Solr Committer in 4662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!
On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! …
Tour of Tika Server Deployment Options
Tika was originally built as a pure library that you would embed in other applications, but soon people wanted to access it over HTTP as a standalone service. In…