Is Llama 2 open source? No – and perhaps we need a new definition of open…
Meta have released their new Llama 2 large language model to great fanfare – but it’s not open source as they say. Why does this matter?
Berlin Buzzwords 2023: AI injects new energy into the search for solutions
Berlin Buzzwords 2023 featured talks on search with AI, scaling, MLOps, vectorizing your search engine and which search engine to use
Using GPT for Relevancy Judgements
Human ratings for relevance tuning are resource-intensive to generate – so could we use a large language model like GPT instead?
How to Compare Vector Search to Traditional Search for E-Commerce
A step-by-step approach to compare the results of two search systems using human ratings & NDCG
A Search Hackday at Haystack US 2023
Lucene bugs, More Like This, ChatGPT, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and MongoDB Atlas Search – just some of the things we worked on at our Search Hackday
Site Search tracking with Google Analytics 4
As Google Analytics Universal Analytics (UA) approaches end-of-life, we show how to set up site search tracking using the new Google Analytics 4 (GA4), BigQuery and Google Looker Studio and how to create your site search tracking dashboards.
Applying synonyms – types, strategies, tools and a glimpse into the future
Applying synonyms – isn’t that a solved challenge by now? This post summarizes tools, types and strategies including a glimpse into the AI-powered future
Building Vector Search in Chorus: A Technical Deep Dive
How we built vector search in Chorus, the open source reference platform for e-commerce search, the challenges and solutions
Beyond Search Relevance: why we’re moving on to search result quality
What’s next after search relevance? We think there are more factors affecting search result quality – here’s how we’ll be exploring them.
Revolutionizing E-commerce Search with Vectors
Atita Arora shows how e-commerce search with vectors can return more relevant products – even with vocabulary mismatches and misspellings!
Minimizing the risks of a search migration project
A search migration project can be risky – how can you identify & mitigate those risks with measurement, a great team and expert help?
Hybrid vigor: a winning way to use hybrid search
How we utilized a variant of BM25 for sparse vector scoring and combined it with cosine similarity between dense vectors to achieve a hybrid ranking algorithm with better search performance than either technique alone, validated at TREC 2021