What is Search Relevance?
Have you ever tried a site’s search and been underwhelmed with the accuracy of the results? Do you find yourself feeling frustrated and leaving when the search doesn’t return…
Links I shared at New York City Solr/Lucene Meetup
Thank you everyone who came to my war stories talk on Wednesday. Really enjoyed the conversation, thanks to everyone for asking so many questions! Here are some of the…
Drupal Devs – Don’t Undervalue Relevant Site Search
Bring your search problems to our booth at DrupalCon! Drupal developers: raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation. You’re ready to deploy your app. You’ve developed…
Crawling with Nutch
Recently, I had a client using LucidWorks search engine who needed to integrate with the Nutch crawler. This sounds simple as both products have been around for a while…
Talking Search and Discovery to Exploit Data at Enterprise Data World 2014
As a search guy, I think of data as something to exploit in order to solve some business objective, with a focus on moving data along the axis of…
Improving Angular Dirty Checking Performance
We build a lot of search applications, including our search relevancy workbench, Quepid or the US Patent and Trademarks Offices Global Patent Navigator Search. A big part of making…
Correctly Using Camels AdviceWith in Unit Tests
Ready to take your data from A to B through any terrain 🙂 We care a lot about the stuff that goes around Solr and Elasticsearch in our clients…
Indexing Polygons in Lucene with Accuracy
Apache Lucene is a Java toolkit that provides a rich set of search capabilities like keyword search, query suggesters, relevancy, and faceting. It also has a spatial module for…
OSC Search Relevancy Talks coming to ApacheCon next week!
See you in Denver! Im looking forward to seeing everyone at ApacheCon in Denver next week! Ill be giving two talks this year. They both focus heavily on search…
OSC Improves DukeMedicine Search Relevancy using Quepid
Visit www.dukemedicine.org to check out our search improvements! Recently we were brought in as part of the search team for DukeMedicine’s new portal to resolve crucial search quality issues….
Using CustomScoreQuery For Custom Solr/Lucene Scoring
This is a preview of a talk Ill be giving entitled Hacking Lucene for Custom Search Results at ApacheCon. Come join me April 7-9th in Denver! Lucene is the…
A Simple Promise Implementation in about 20 lines of Javascript
Promises are a rather convenient way of creating readable asynchronous code. More importantly, implementing Promises is a great way to hone your ability to grok async code. So follow…