Think Like a (Remote) Relevance Engineer with our new online training
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, like everyone else we’ve been rapidly adjusting to the new reality of most if not all of our work having to…
Our COVID-19 response & supporting the relevance community
We’re sorry to burden you with yet another COVID-19 blog to read (everyone seems to have written one – my personal favourites have been from a company selling mattresses…
Feedback debt: what the Segway teaches search teams
Does anyone else remember the Segway? Segway was billed as the most revolutionary transportation innovation, well, ever. We would use it instead of cars; instead of biking and walking….
Quepid Carries Your Caseload
Now that you are using Quepid to collaborate with members of your team by sharing your cases with other members of your Team, you need a way to view…
Choosing Your Search Relevance Evaluation Metric
Summary This post explains different search evaluation metrics and when to use them. It covers binary metrics (Precision and Average Precision) and graded metrics (Cumulative Gain, DCG, and nDCG)….
Search Insights 2020, a new report from The Search Network
The Search Network is a group of independent search professionals and companies formed in 2017 as a community of practice. The Network publishes free annual reports covering many different…
Importing Legacy Search Results into Quepid
Are you migrating from Google Search Appliance, Endeca, or some other legacy search solution to Solr or Elasticsearch? Want to prove the migration succeeded without worrying about lost customers,…
Tour of Tika Server Deployment Options
Tika was originally built as a pure library that you would embed in other applications, but soon people wanted to access it over HTTP as a standalone service. In…
Announcing Quepid 6.1.0
It’s been six months since we open sourced Quepid, and it looks like momentum is growing. Since we flipped the switch, we’ve had two minor point releases. We’ve also…
Opening up search is an ethical imperative
As search professionals, we’re often lost in our everyday minutiae. We don’t appreciate the impact of our work on everyday lives. The data shows that when users encounter non-trivial…
Why you should submit a talk to Haystack, the Search Relevance Conference
Most of you will be aware of our Haystack conference, which we currently run in April in Charlottesville, USA and in October in Europe. We’re now in our third…
What problem does BERT hope to solve for search?
I’m sure if you run in search or NLP circles, you’ve heard of BERT. It’s what Google famously used to improve 1 out of 10 searches, in what they…