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Site Search tracking with Google Analytics 4
Introduction As the end-of-life for Google Analytics Universal Analytics (UA) is nearing, businesses face the challenge of migrating to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). As you probably have learned this is...
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A Search Hackday at Haystack US 2023
Last Thursday I was lucky enough to share a small room with some of the cleverest people I know working in search today, at our Search Hackday, part of Haystack US 2023. We had OSC alumni Bertrand...
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How to Compare Vector Search to Traditional Search for E-Commerce
Introduction With the advent of vector search engines like Weaviate, Milvus, Vespa or Qdrant, neural search frameworks like Jina or Haystack and of course the availability of vector search...
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Using GPT for Relevancy Judgements
Human ratings are essential to relevance tuning but quite resource-intensive to generate. However, once we’ve collected them we can quickly iterate over changes to our retrieval algorithm and estimate...
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Berlin Buzzwords 2023: AI injects new energy into the search for solutions
Last week the OSC EU team returned to Berlin for one of our favourite events on the calendar, Berlin Buzzwords. This year’s event was busier, happier and definitely focused on search with AI – so what...
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Is Llama 2 open source? No – and perhaps we need a new definition of open…
Yesterday Meta released, with great fanfare, their new large language model Llama 2. Trained on over 2 trillion tokens with double the context length compared to Llama 1, this has impressive...
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Generative AI in the Consumer Buying Decision Process
Generative AI is all the rage and companies are currently trying to identify the right strategy to leverage its potential. But how can generative AI help your customers find the right products and...
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Building AI? Learn from the era of Big Data & ask a search expert
Let’s turn the clock back a few years, perhaps to 2012 or so, when I wrote a somewhat snarky blog about Big Data, then the buzzword du jour. Big Data was a poorly defined marketing term – some would...
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Learning to Measure AI-Powered Search with Vectara
AI-powered search is everywhere – new projects, products and companies are appearing to solve age-old challenges. But how ‘good’ is an AI-powered search engine – and how can we measure this? It’s no...
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CI/CD……CE! Continuous Experimentation for Search Improvement
“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.” Lord Kelvin (attributed) Just as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) enable a testing regime that minimizes the introduction...
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Until Decompounding Do Us Part – Solving compound noun challenges with Querqy...
Some languages have weird rules, and as a German native speaker working in search I know this well. For instance in German, you are technically allowed to join any number of nouns together to form new...
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A reality check for LLMs: access control and other lessons from enterprise...
There’s a lot of people writing a lot of things on platforms such as LinkedIn around Large Language Models – LLMs – and how they will shortly be able to cope with pretty much any task we throw at...
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New Quepid Features
Quepid is a free tool, created and maintained by the OSC team, for gathering human relevance judgments and using these to generate overall metrics. It also lets you change the structure of queries and...
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What do you actually mean? Query Understanding with LLMs
Introduction The advances in Natural Language Processing over the last years brought us a plethora of large language models that can be used for different tasks in search applications but also in...
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Announcing the Hughes Scholarship for Haystack US 2024
Last year we sadly lost one of our community members, Simon Hughes. Simon was a regular attendee and speaker at Haystack, always happy to share his expertise and long experience of working on search...
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How to get the best from a search conference (updated)
Updated 14th March 2024 Attending a search conference is a great way to meet others in your field and learn about new techniques, tools and approaches. However they’re not all the same and to get the...
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