One of the most common questions we’re asked at OSC is ‘which search engine should I choose, Elasticsearch or Solr?’. Our web logs show consistently high traffic from Google…
Pete, the e-commerce search engine manager, finds out how to scale up search result rating using outsourcing & managed services
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…
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
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 feature in Quepid, the relevancy tuning workbench
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 the Search Product Manager finds out how to rate search results with Quepid to generate a judgement list
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – how does a relevance engineer learn how their client’s business works?
Relevance Engineering is the practice of optimising site search engines – what is a ‘relevance engineer’ and what do they do?
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…
