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
Hybrid vigor: a winning way to use hybrid search
How we utilized a variant of BM25 for sparse vector scoring and combined it with cosine similarity between dense vectors to achieve a hybrid ranking algorithm with better search performance than either technique alone, validated at TREC 2021
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
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…
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
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!
Welcome René Kriegler to our growing European search team
René Kriegler joins OSC to head up our e-commerce search practice and our new European office
The Annual Search Shootout – Testing strategy on 2019’s topics
This post is part of a series I’ve been writing about participating in TREC 2020’s News Track. This post is a visual report of the retrieval performance we observed…
The Annual Search Shootout – how we’re competing at TREC to build better news recommendation
What exactly is TREC? If you’re involved in search, you have likely heard about TREC. TREC is short for the Text REtrieval Conference. This annual conference has been running…
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
Why Haystack? Democratizing Search Relevance!
We’re proud to be putting on another Haystack in late April. But why? A few people have asked me why we need another search conference? What’s the purpose behind…