Quepid Announced
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 9, 2015 – OpenSource Connections, a search and discovery consulting firm specializing in user engagement and relevancy, has launched Quepid, its search relevance testing and monitoring…
Exclusions in Field Lists in Solr
Back in 2012 Luca Cavanna opened an issue on the Solr Jirarequesting a field exclusion syntax. Right now it’s the 5th highest-voted ticket, and it’s easy to understand why.Documents…
Recap of Lucene Revolution 2015 in Austin
Every one of us at OSC looks forward to Lucene Revolution. It’s one of the few conferences we attend where everyone understands search at a deep level. That means…
Recap of Cassandra Summit 2015
This year OpenSource Connections rolled into Cassandra Summit with 4 attendees. Eric Pugh, Matt Overstreet, and John Woodell attended some of the 137 sessions offered. Matt walked away from…
BM25 The Next Generation of Lucene Relevance
There’s something new cooking in how Lucene scores text. Instead of the traditional “TF*IDF,” Lucene just switched to something called BM25 in trunk. That means a new scoring formula…
Bad Patterns in Tuning Search Results
We’re talking to customers about what challenges they are experiencing in returning highly relevant search results this week while we are at LuceneRevolution. I was really happy when during…
OSC is Proud to Support Charlottesville Women in Tech (CWiT)!
When the Charlottesville Women in Technology (CWiT) team first contacted Opensource Connections (OSC) about whether or not we wanted to sponsor CWiT for the year, to be honest I…
Announcing Quepid For Elasticsearch
Carefully prune the bonsai tree with Quepid for Elasticsearch 🙂 Good news! We’re proud to announce our test-driven search toolbench Quepid now supports Elasticsearch. Quepid solves fundamental problems that…
Using DSE to run Solr Spark Jobs
Ever since Tim Potter from LucidWorks published his Spark Solr project, I’ve been wanting to play with it. This week I was at Cassandra Summit 2015 , and so…
Elyzer: Step-by-Step Elasticsearch Analyzer Debugging
I love stringing together custom analyzers to solve my search problems. Analyzers control how search and document text are transformed, step-by-step into individual terms for matching. This in turn…
The Simple Power of Elasticsearch Analyzers
No need for analysis paralysis! 🙂 Get Relevant Search today and use offer code turnbullmu for 38% off all formats! In Chapter 4 of Relevant Search, we talk a…
Quepid: Relationship Counseling for You and Your Search Engine
Quepid: the missing ingredient in your relationship with your Solr and Elasticsearch. Just like true love, better search need not be so complicated When I first got involved in…