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Relevant Search
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Relevant Search

by John Berryman, Doug Turnbull
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
12h 53m
English
Manning Publications

Overview

Relevant Search demystifies relevance work. Using Elasticsearch, it teaches you how to return engaging search results to your users, helping you understand and leverage the internals of Lucene-based search engines.



About the Technology

Users are accustomed to and expect instant, relevant search results. To achieve this, you must master the search engine. Yet for many developers, relevance ranking is mysterious or confusing.



About the Book

Relevant Search demystifies the subject and shows you that a search engine is a programmable relevance framework. You'll learn how to apply Elasticsearch or Solr to your business's unique ranking problems. The book demonstrates how to program relevance and how to incorporate secondary data sources, taxonomies, text analytics, and personalization. In practice, a relevance framework requires softer skills as well, such as collaborating with stakeholders to discover the right relevance requirements for your business. By the end, you'll be able to achieve a virtuous cycle of provable, measurable relevance improvements over a search product's lifetime.



What's Inside
  • Techniques for debugging relevance

  • Applying search engine features to real problems

  • Using the user interface to guide searchers

  • A systematic approach to relevance

  • A business culture focused on improving search


About the Reader

For developers trying to build smarter search with Elasticsearch or Solr.



About the Authors

Doug Turnbull is lead relevance consultant at OpenSource Connections, where he frequently speaks and blogs. John Berryman is a data engineer at Eventbrite, where he specializes in recommendations and search.



Quotes
One of the best and most engaging technical books I’ve ever read.
- From the Foreword by Trey Grainger, Author of "Solr in Action"

Will help you solve real-world search relevance problems for Lucene-based search engines.
- Dimitrios Kouzis-Loukas, Bloomberg L.P.

An inspiring book revealing the essence and mechanics of relevant search.
- Ursin Stauss, Swiss Post

Arms you with invaluable knowledge to temper the relevancy of search results and harness the powerful features provided by modern search engines.
- Russ Cam, Elastic

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Publisher Resources

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