It’s terrifying to contemplate switching search engines. Unfortunately, Google Search Appliance is going away fast. Google hasn’t left much time to get off their platform: they close the doors…
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Last time on The Young and The RESTful, aka Elasticsearch vs Solr, we took…
So you’ve stood up Solr or Elasticsearch. Your search app is humming along. However, how do you know your search understands what your users are asking for? Users are…
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Solr vs Elasticsearch! There’s been a TON of posts. But has anyone ever compared…
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…
We’re talking to customers about what challenges they are experiencing in returning highly relevant search results this week while we are at LuceneRevolution. I was really happy when during…
Ever since Tim Potter from LucidWorks published his Spark Solr project, I’ve been wanting to play with it. This week I was at Cassandra Summit 2015 , and so…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is becoming more common to connect directly with a Solr cluster from rich client side applications. Performing a search directly against the cluster will require either JSONP or…
