Why we set up a MICES in the US – and why we think that you should attend
MICES the e-commerce search event returns in June 2022 to Berlin – and there’s a new MICES in the US in April
Autonomy and IBM Watson – clever marketing doesn’t always win in the end
This week brought two news items that reminded those of us with long memories of some of the more egregious examples of over-marketing search technology. One is about a…
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
How Open Source can drive Sustainability – a COP26 fringe event
A review of the Open Technology Sustainability Day at COP26 and how OSC sponsored an Open Source Award
Haystack 2021 – The Search Relevance Event returns
Haystack, the search relevance conference is back on September 29th 2021 with in-person and online options – come and join us!
Building the Search Community with Relevance Slack
This week Relevance Slack, which OSC created a few years ago, hit the milestone of 1750 users. Relevance Slack was founded to give the growing search relevance community a…
OpenSearch – Amazon forks Elasticsearch and the divergence begins
As expected, Amazon have announced their fork of the Elasticsearch codebase following the recent changes to the licensing of the latter by Elastic. This sounds like a herculean effort,…
Solr vs Elasticsearch vs Vespa – what did we learn at The Great Search Engine Debate?
One of the most common questions we’re asked at OSC is ‘which search engine should I choose, Elasticsearch or Solr?’. Our web logs show consistently high traffic from Google…
A call for a truly open Elasticsearch community
As I wrote only a few days ago, Elastic, the company formed by the creators of Elasticsearch, will be releasing future versions of this software under a non open…
Is Elasticsearch no longer open source software?
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
The Annual Search Shootout – Search strategy for TREC News
This is the second post in my blog series about participating in TREC 2020. If you want some background about what exactly is TREC, check out my first post….
Stop chasing the Search Unicorn when building a search team!
I’ve had several conversations with clients recently who are perfectly aware that to make a step change in their ability to deliver great search, they’re going to need some…