Haystack Agenda Announced!
Hey, you know you want to come to this awesome search relevance conference! We’ll have talks from companies like LexisNexis, Wikimedia Foundation, Snagajob, Lucidworks, and Elastic! Talks range from…
Elasticsearch Learning to Rank 1.0.1 Released
Thanks so much to community members who let us know that Elasticsearch Learning to Rank did not work with Elastic Cloud/XPack Security. Today Elastic Learning to Rank 1.0.1 is…
Retaining Customers
In product meetings, when I advocate for customer retention – regular, repeat business from the customer over months/years – I sometimes get blank stares. Teams want to do everything…
Roll your own search analytics
I recently completed a fairly straight-forward search project in which we were replacing a legacysystem with Solr. The goal for the first release was to just make sure that…
Why We’re Doing a Search Relevance Conference
Our mission is to empower the world’s best search teams. Search teams ultimately generate value for their organizations through better, smarter search. That is: relevance. Sadly relevance remains maddening!…
Solr Synonyms and Taxonomies: Mea Culpa
I screwed up! Mea Culpa. Let he who is without synonyms throw the first rock! In my talk Taxonomical Semantical Magical Search, I presented an index-time hypernym/hyponym expansion solution….
Vespa vs Lucene: First Impressions
As we learn more about Vespa, we wanted to give our initial impressions when comparing to Lucene-based search (Solr/Elasticsearch). This is based on initial passes with Vespa and our…
Elasticsearch Learning to Rank 1.0 RC1 Released
We reached a major milestone over the weekend! We released the first release candidate for version 1.0 of Elasticsearch Learning to Rank. While our partners Wikimedia and Snagajob are…
Solving The Search Management Minefield in Open Source Search
A common theme in software development is the tension between: Fixing painful bugs now!! Creating tools & practices that let us fix bugs faster (though at some theoretical time…
How is search different than other machine learning problems?
Learning to Rank turns search into a machine learning problem. In this article, I want to explore what makes search distinct from other machine learning problems. How does one…
Three Steps To Take Before Replacing Your Enterprise Search Solution
Replacing an enterprise search product? Use this three-step process to create actionable requirements for your team. The inherent challenge in replacing existing enterprise products is that their functionality and…
Caching In Elasticsearch
Responding to queries takes CPU time, memory, and in unfortunate cases, wall time as well. Increasing the power of a cluster helps, over-provisioning can be very expensive. Caching is…