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?
Defining relevance engineering, part 1: the background
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – what is a ‘relevance engineer’ and what do they do?
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?
The Annual Search Shootout – Search strategy for TREC News
This is the second post in my blog series about participating in TREC 2020. If you want some background about what exactly is TREC, check out my first post….
Stop chasing the Search Unicorn when building a search team!
I’ve had several conversations with clients recently who are perfectly aware that to make a step change in their ability to deliver great search, they’re going to need some…
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?
Training non-technical staff in search skills
In a previous blog, I wrote about how important it is to consider how to train your staff in search skills so that everyone can work effectively on the…
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
What is a Relevance Engineer?
At OpenSource Connections, we discuss the role ‘relevance engineer’ quite extensively. In this post, I want to define this term. We feel it’s a key, often missing component of…