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
But why can’t you start on Monday? How not to jump feet first into a search project
How you shouldn’t jump feet first into a search project and how OSC uses our Proven Process to ensure success
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
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…
What’s new in Querqy, the query preprocessor for Solr (and Elasticsearch)?
We’ve recently released Querqy 5 for Solr – a good time to have a look at this new major version and at other exciting features that were implemented recently….
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
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
Introducing the Show Only Rated toggle in Quepid
Introducing the Show Only Rated feature in Quepid, the relevancy tuning workbench
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
Defining relevance engineering part 2: learning the business
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – how does a relevance engineer learn how their client’s business works?