How can a search team gain more control of search?
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…
Solr vs Elasticsearch vs Vespa – what did we learn at The Great Search Engine Debate?
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 learns how to scale up search result rating
Pete, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to scale up search result rating using outsourcing & managed services
A call for a truly open Elasticsearch community
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…
Migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch [or OpenSearch] with this Playbook
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus
Is Elasticsearch no longer open source software?
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
Pete finds out how to rate search results to create a judgement list
Pete the Search Product Manager finds out how to rate search results with Quepid to generate a judgement list
Digging into Term Statistics with Elasticsearch LTR
How to use low level Lucene term statistics with Elasticsearch LTR plugin using TermStatQuery for feature engineering
Pete learns about selling search keywords with Chorus
Our intrepid supplier management team has just signed a deal with a brand – how do we ‘sell’ some keywords to support this?
Pete solves the e-commerce search accessories problem with boosting & synonyms
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 does Pete, the e-commerce search product manager, build a web shop?
How to use a collection of open source, freely available software components we’ve named Chorus to build a complete, tuneable, testable online shop
Meet Pete, the e-commerce search product manager.
Meet Pete. Pete’s in trouble. Pete’s just been hired as Product Manager for Search at electronics retailer Chorus Electronics. His boss, a Vice President, has asked him to build…