Elastic lays off 7% of staff – what to do if you’re an ex-Elastician or end user
After the recent Elastic layoff what should ex-Elasticians do and what does this mean for the search market – what are the options?
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Charlie Hull
Is everyone really moving to Agentic Search?
Is everyone actually building agentic search? Or is it tomorrow’s problem? My perspective from conferences and the real world.
Search & AI in the right context – an unsolved challenge
I was chatting to people at a search conference recently and we got onto the subject of language and how it changes according to context. Language is a common topic at these events – after all, our job as search… Read More »Search & AI in the right context – an unsolved challenge
Fuzzy search for typo tolerance on a free OpenSearch cluster
Fat fingers, cats on the keyboard and simply bad spelling – all of these can lead to search queries that don’t match anything in your index. To keep your users happy you need to cope with whatever they type and… Read More »Fuzzy search for typo tolerance on a free OpenSearch cluster
Embrace or replace: the different ways OpenSearch & Elasticsearch adopt third party plugins
How Elasticsearch and OpenSearch work with externally created plugins – and how they could do better
The world of Search Meetups
I love a Search Meetup! The chance to get together in an informal setting with others enthusiastic about search engine technology, hear some talks, grab a slice of pizza and chat. I’ve run several over the years – the London… Read More »The world of Search Meetups
How to securely hook up Quepid to Vespa
I’ve been learning more about Vespa, an open source search engine originally developed to serve and search huge amounts of content and traffic at Yahoo! and now developed by a spinout company. Vespa is hugely flexible and powerful and I’ve… Read More »How to securely hook up Quepid to Vespa
Why replacing your search engine may not fix your search
As a search manager or search team lead, you’ll occasionally be asked to consider whether you should migrate to a new technology platform. In fact, this may come up on a regular basis, as salespeople “just check in” (in case… Read More »Why replacing your search engine may not fix your search
It’s your responsibility – but how do you even start fixing search?
As a Product Manager or engineering lead within a search team, it’s often hard to know where to start fixing search. You’ll have a list of complaints from users, management, those producing content, customer support teams; a backlog of things… Read More »It’s your responsibility – but how do you even start fixing search?
A new world of search engine tuning tools
Tuning search engines to return the best results for users is a constant process of experimentation, measurement and adjustment. We hope that we have enough data about what results users prefer – perhaps derived from which results they click on… Read More »A new world of search engine tuning tools