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
Solr Backup – a simple walk through of Backup and Restore of a Solr Collection
Steps for backing up and restoring a Solr collection using the Collections API
Pete learns about selling search keywords with Chorus
Our intrepid supplier management team has just signed a deal with a brand – how do we ‘sell’ some keywords to support this?
The Annual Search Shootout – Search strategy for TREC News
This is the second post in my blog series about participating in TREC 2020. If you want some background about what exactly is TREC, check out my first post….
E-Commerce Site-Search KPIs – Part 3 – Queries
Welcome back, ethereal emporium enthusiasts, for our third installment of mastering KPIs for your store’s site search. It’s been a long road, but we’re nearing our destination. We first…
The Annual Search Shootout – how we’re competing at TREC to build better news recommendation
What exactly is TREC? If you’re involved in search, you have likely heard about TREC. TREC is short for the Text REtrieval Conference. This annual conference has been running…
E-commerce Site-Search KPIs – Part 2 – Products
Welcome back, merchants and purveyors riding the digital universe, for our continuation of blunt and practical advice for site-search KPIs. In our first installment, we talked about the high…
Stop chasing the Search Unicorn when building a search team!
I’ve had several conversations with clients recently who are perfectly aware that to make a step change in their ability to deliver great search, they’re going to need some…
E-commerce Site-Search KPIs – Part 1 – Customers
Welcome, retail aficionado, this guide is for you! We will outline all the things you need to know about measuring the quality and effectiveness of your store’s site-search with…