charliejuggler
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I'm a Managing Consultant at OpenSource Connections www.o19s.com , ran UK open source search consultancy Flax for 17 years, co-authored Searching the Enterprise for NOW! Publications, regularly blog, write and present about search and host & run search conferences like Haystack.
We've been building some systems for clients recently including Moody's using Lucene-based engines for the R-part - the G part tends to be OpenAI or some such service but there's also appetite for internally hosted…
You could try the method we used for our vector search demo for e-commerce (all open source, natch) - use CLIP to get vector embeddings for product pictures and then use these for boosting or matching.…
You might like the 'Which Search Engine?' panel I ran at Buzzwords earlier this year with some of the leading contenders (Vespa, Qdrant, Elastic, Solr, Weaviate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI40L4wMtyI - vector…
My colleague Nate wrote about using Jaccard for search engine regression testing: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2021/07/23/jaccard-in... If you make changes to a search algorithm and the order of results…
People have been predicting the death of keyword search for at least as long as I've been working in the field (23 years and counting!). We've seen outrageous marketing claims, buzzwords like "concept search", "insight…
If you're interested in the detail behind this check out Simon Hughes' talk at our Haystack search relevance conference last year https://haystackconf.com/2021/ - the video is here…