Choosing your search relevance evaluation metric
Ensuring results are relevant is tricky but critical to a good search experience. Choosing an evaluationmetric to summarize the performance of the search engine can be equally challenging because…
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…
Tika Tuesdays: Parsing Tika & Tesseract formatted HOCR output inside Solr ingestion pipeline
In our first couple of posts, we ended up doing a lot of the processing work outside of Solr. It gave me a chance to polish my PowerShell skills,…
What is a ‘Relevant’ Search Result?
Five years ago, I wrote an article called What is Search Relevance?. Back then, I had to shout to convince people to even notice whether search results were accurate…
Tesseract 3 and Tika
Tesseract 4 is a major upgrade to this venerable OCR library, incorporating neural networks and lots of other great improvements, but not everyone has upgraded to it (including one…
