Apache Solr 9.0 Released
Apache Solr committer Kevin Risden updates us on Solr 9, now more lightweight and with vector search capabilities
How to make Quepid talk to your .NET Search API
By Atita Arora (OpenSource Connections), Bego Terzimustafic & Mark Johnson (Emerson Ecologics) In the e-commerce business, there are several factors directly or indirectly affecting your success. A smooth UI…
Fundamentals of query rewriting (part 1): introduction to query expansion
Johannes Peter introduces query expansion in the first part of a series on fundamentals of query rewriting
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…
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
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….
Adding integration tests to a Solr plugin project
Thanks to Torsten Bøgh Köster for this guest post! When developing Solr plugins for the open source community (or your in-house Solr team) you’re faced with testing the plugin’s…
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
Migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with this Playbook
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus