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.
How to get the best from a search conference
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from 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…
And Then There Were Three – OpenSearch comes of age
OpenSearch joins Elasticsearch and Apache Solr as a serious option for powering search – but why is it different and how might the rise of vector search change the…
Haystack US 2022 – juggling relevance in a hybrid search world
A few weeks ago we ran our flagship US conference Haystack, the first real in-person event since April 2019 (I’m sure I don’t need to tell you why!). It’s…
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