I had a lecture about Information Retrieval at university. That’s the field that studies search engines. In the first few classes we learned about the history and evolution of language models that are used for search engines. The most basic and simple form of a… Read more
This blogpost will walk you through a demo that shows how you can use Elasticsearch to build a self-learning search engine. You can apply this technique if you have a user facing UI and if you can access the webanalytics that tracks the user-interaction with… Read more
This blog post is written for engineers that are always looking for ways to improve the result sets of their search application built on Elasticsearch. The goal of this post is to raise awareness of why you should care about relevance, what components are involved… Read more