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…
Better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F and the combined_fields query
How the combined_fields query introduces better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F
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
But why can’t you start on Monday? How not to jump feet first into a search project
How you shouldn’t jump feet first into a search project and how OSC uses our Proven Process to ensure success
Ranking Search Results by Trending Hashtags with a zero-shot classifier
How to classify movies based on trending topics using a zero-shot classifier, Kubernetes and Apache Flink
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
OpenSearch – Amazon forks Elasticsearch and the divergence begins
As expected, Amazon have announced their fork of the Elasticsearch codebase following the recent changes to the licensing of the latter by Elastic. This sounds like a herculean effort,…
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…
Podcasts about Ecommerce That I’m Listening To
These days I’m talking primarily to business leadership, marketing and merchandising teams about the impact of search on improving ecommerce. These teams have different concerns and demands than the…
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…