BM25 The Next Generation of Lucene Relevance
There’s something new cooking in how Lucene scores text. Instead of the traditional “TF*IDF,” Lucene just switched to something called BM25 in trunk. That means a new scoring formula…
The Simple Power of Elasticsearch Analyzers
No need for analysis paralysis! 🙂 Get Relevant Search today and use offer code turnbullmu for 38% off all formats! In Chapter 4 of Relevant Search, we talk a…
Quepid: Relationship Counseling for You and Your Search Engine
Quepid: the missing ingredient in your relationship with your Solr and Elasticsearch. Just like true love, better search need not be so complicated When I first got involved in…
“Relevant Search” Chapters 4 and 5 Now Available!
We’re pleased to announce that Chapters 4 and 5 are available for early access for Relevant Search! Please read and give us feedback. This is early access for a…
Data Modeling For Search Relevance — Signals and Semantics
Mold your fields to capture their searchable essence Perhaps the biggest relevance mistake you can make is to take content, straight from it’s source, and plop it directly into…
We’re Writing The Book on Search Relevance!
The search bar has crept into your application. Do you know how to extract value out of it? Or is it a dangling afterthought? Search is hard. Yet it’s…
Elasticsearch Cross Field Search Is A Lie
At OpenSource Connections, We Do What We Must, Because We Can In Elasticsearch, searching across multiple fields can be confusing to beginners. This is a tough first step in…