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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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
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
Hacking Quepid to test search relevance on any website
If you know your search is broken (often because lots of users and colleagues are complaining about it) the first step is to come up with some kind of measurement of just how bad it is. Only then should you… Read More »Hacking Quepid to test search relevance on any website
Bridging the moat – why open source AI is a disruptive business strategy
We still don’t know what we mean by open source AI, but many are playing fast and loose with the term to disrupt the AI market