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,…
Several conversations with clients I’ve had recently have made me think about the issue of control when it comes to search quality improvement: specifically, how much control a search…
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…
Pete, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to scale up search result rating using outsourcing & managed services
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…
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
Pete the Search Product Manager finds out how to rate search results with Quepid to generate a judgement list
How to use low level Lucene term statistics with Elasticsearch LTR plugin using TermStatQuery for feature engineering
Our intrepid supplier management team has just signed a deal with a brand – how do we ‘sell’ some keywords to support this?
Pete’s run into a very common problem in e-commerce search: when his users search for ‘laptop’ the first page of results is laptop accessories – how does he fix this?
How to use a collection of open source, freely available software components we’ve named Chorus to build a complete, tuneable, testable online shop
