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…
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
Minimizing the risks of a search migration project
A search migration project can be risky – how can you identify & mitigate those risks with measurement, a great team and expert help?
Pete learns that sometimes redirects are all you need
Some queries require a special technique to be improved: the need a redirect to a landing page. Learn how to implement this with Chorus and about types of redirects, pitfalls, …
Approaches to field boost tuning with Learning to Rank
A guest post from the Metarank team write on field boosts, Learning to Boost and Learning to Rank
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…
Chorus, now also for Elasticsearch!
Building your own e-commerce search with Elasticsearch just got easier In June 2020 the first release of Chorus was announced at Berlin Buzzwords by Eric Pugh, Johannes Peter, René…
Fundamentals of query rewriting (part 1): introduction to query expansion
Johannes Peter introduces query expansion in the first part of a series on fundamentals of query rewriting
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…
Better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F and the combined_fields query
How the combined_fields query introduces better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F
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
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