Training non-technical staff in search skills
In a previous blog, I wrote about how important it is to consider how to train your staff in search skills so that everyone can work effectively on the…
How does Pete, the e-commerce search product manager, build a web shop?
How to use a collection of open source, freely available software components we’ve named Chorus to build a complete, tuneable, testable online shop
What is a Relevance Engineer?
At OpenSource Connections, we discuss the role ‘relevance engineer’ quite extensively. In this post, I want to define this term. We feel it’s a key, often missing component of…
I Became a Solr Committer in 4662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!
On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! …
Leveling Up with Natural Language Search!
You’ve done it, dear reader! You got to the base of relevant search for your customers. You have a search platform installed and working, you’re measuring, experimenting, and improving…
Meet Pete, the e-commerce search product manager.
Meet Pete. Pete’s in trouble. Pete’s just been hired as Product Manager for Search at electronics retailer Chorus Electronics. His boss, a Vice President, has asked him to build…
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
My python generator died and all I got was this stupid blog article
couple your generators with context managers! As part of my AI Powered Search chapters, I’m cleaning up Hello LTR’s Python API to make the code more readable as book examples. A big part…
Silos Are the Enemy of AI Powered Search
As a contributor to AI Powered Search I’m struck by how often organizational, rather than technical, challenges stymie machine learning adoption. Let’s explore one of those challenges: silos between…
Haystack Is Back! Go virtual for relevant search talks, workshops, discussions & training
When the COVID-19 crisis hit back in early March we were already planning our annual Haystack US conference – hoping to welcome 150 relevance specialists to Charlottesville in late…
Building an Effective Search Team: the key to great search & relevancy
Search and relevancy are often regarded as simply IT problems, implying that if you install the right software with the right architecture and configuration, your users’ queries will be…
5 Right Ways to Measure How Search Is Performing
Search is a big deal — how else could we navigate the digital age where information overload is the status quo? But despite search being omnipresent, it can still…