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…
Pete solves the e-commerce search accessories problem with boosting & synonyms
Pete’s run into a very common problem in e-commerce search: when his users search for ‘laptop’ the first page of results is laptop accessories – how does he fix this?
Training non-technical staff in search skills
In a previous blog, I wrote about how important it is to consider how to train your staff in search skills so that everyone can work effectively on the…
How does Pete, the e-commerce search product manager, build a web shop?
How to use a collection of open source, freely available software components we’ve named Chorus to build a complete, tuneable, testable online shop
What is a Relevance Engineer?
A relevance engineer is a key, and often missing component of the search team, implementing information retrieval algorithms that solve user information needs in real time, at scale.
I Became a Solr Committer in 4662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!
On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! …
Leveling Up with Natural Language Search!
You’ve done it, dear reader! You got to the base of relevant search for your customers. You have a search platform installed and working, you’re measuring, experimenting, and improving…
Meet Pete, the e-commerce search product manager.
Meet Pete. Pete’s in trouble. Pete’s just been hired as Product Manager for Search at electronics retailer Chorus Electronics. His boss, a Vice President, has asked him to build…
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
My python generator died and all I got was this stupid blog article
couple your generators with context managers! As part of my AI Powered Search chapters, I’m cleaning up Hello LTR’s Python API to make the code more readable as book examples. A big part…
Silos Are the Enemy of AI Powered Search
As a contributor to AI Powered Search I’m struck by how often organizational, rather than technical, challenges stymie machine learning adoption. Let’s explore one of those challenges: silos between…