A call for a truly open Elasticsearch community
As I wrote only a few days ago, Elastic, the company formed by the creators of Elasticsearch, will be releasing future versions of this software under a non open…
Migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch [or OpenSearch] with this Playbook
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus
Is Elasticsearch no longer open source software?
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
A Solr performance debugging toolkit
Thanks to Matt Pearce for this guest post! We’ve recently been working with a large client who were having issues with their Solr cluster. Very occasionally, nodes in the…
Introducing the Show Only Rated toggle in Quepid
Introducing the Show Only Rated feature in Quepid, the relevancy tuning workbench
What is Search in the Omnichannel?
That’s right folks, we’re here to talk about the re-emerging big hype term: omnichannel. Specifically, I want to write a short post on why and how this changes what…
Pete finds out how to rate search results to create a judgement list
Pete the Search Product Manager finds out how to rate search results with Quepid to generate a judgement list
Defining relevance engineering part 2: learning the business
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – how does a relevance engineer learn how their client’s business works?
Defining relevance engineering, part 1: the background
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – what is a ‘relevance engineer’ and what do they do?
The Annual Search Shootout – Testing strategy on 2019’s topics
This post is part of a series I’ve been writing about participating in TREC 2020’s News Track. This post is a visual report of the retrieval performance we observed…
A tool stack for open source ecommerce site search
Eric Pugh and René Kriegler recently spoke at ApacheCon @Home about Chorus, a reference implementation for ecommerce search. Chorus is based on Apache Solr (although with a little work…
Digging into Term Statistics with Elasticsearch LTR
How to use low level Lucene term statistics with Elasticsearch LTR plugin using TermStatQuery for feature engineering