10 Reasons why you shouldn’t remove stop words
Should you automatically remove stop words like ‘the’ from your search query or index? Here are 10 reasons you shouldn’t!
Pete establishes a Baseline Relevance Metric
On his continuing quest to build superior e-commerce search, Pete the Product Owner establishes a baseline relevance metric
Approaches to field boost tuning with Learning to Rank
A guest post from the Metarank team write on field boosts, Learning to Boost and Learning to Rank
How to get the best from a search conference
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from them
Applying Vector Search in E-Commerce
How we built a prototype vector search application for e-commerce using Jina AI at the Vector Search Hackday
What is vector search? A guide to the new frontier
Vector search & neural search – what exactly are these new techniques, what can they do and what do you need to consider when implementing them?
How to succeed with explicit relevance evaluation using Probability-Proportional-to-Size sampling
How to use PPTS sampling to choose queries to reflect the actual needs of your users when carrying out explicit relevance evaluation.
Solr Contributor Bootcamp
Do you want to become a contributor to Solr, the open source search server from the Apache Foundation, but don’t know where to start? Here’s your chance! Eric Pugh…
OpenSearchCon 2022
On September 21, 2022, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at Amazon Web Services’ inaugural OpenSearchCon in Seattle, WA. It was a one day event focused entirely…
And Then There Were Three – OpenSearch comes of age
OpenSearch joins Elasticsearch and Apache Solr as a serious option for powering search – but why is it different and how might the rise of vector search change the…
Visualize e-commerce search signal data with SQL & Apache Superset
Improving e-commerce search often starts with being able to actually know what’s going on in your online shop search, and much of this knowledge may be gathered by analyzing…
Apache Solr 9.0 Released
Apache Solr committer Kevin Risden updates us on Solr 9, now more lightweight and with vector search capabilities