Dogfights in Open Source Search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
I’ve had some interesting conversations over the last few months around the three big hitters of open source search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Solr is the old dog in…
Lead Author of “AI-Powered Search” Trey Grainger joins OSC team
The Next Generation of Search at OpenSource Connections In 2016 Manning published Relevant Search, co-written by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman. Unlike most books on the subject of ‘search’…
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
Haystack US 2024 – a review by the winners of the Hughes Scholarship
A review of Haystack US 2024, the search relevance conference, by the three winners of the Hughes Scholarship.
How to get the best from a search conference (updated)
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from them
Announcing the Hughes Scholarship for Haystack US 2024
Announcing the Hughes Scholarship to assist those at an early stage of their search & AI careers to attend Haystack conferences.
Is Llama 2 open source? No – and perhaps we need a new definition of open…
Meta have released their new Llama 2 large language model to great fanfare – but it’s not open source as they say. Why does this matter?
Berlin Buzzwords 2023: AI injects new energy into the search for solutions
Berlin Buzzwords 2023 featured talks on search with AI, scaling, MLOps, vectorizing your search engine and which search engine to use
A Search Hackday at Haystack US 2023
Lucene bugs, More Like This, ChatGPT, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and MongoDB Atlas Search – just some of the things we worked on at our Search Hackday
Beyond Search Relevance: why we’re moving on to search result quality
What’s next after search relevance? We think there are more factors affecting search result quality – here’s how we’ll be exploring them.
Solr Contributor Bootcamp
Do you want to become a contributor to Solr, the open source search server from the Apache Foundation, but don’t know where to start? Here’s your chance! Eric Pugh…
OpenSearchCon 2022
On September 21, 2022, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at Amazon Web Services’ inaugural OpenSearchCon in Seattle, WA. It was a one day event focused entirely…