Relevant Search
by Doug Turnbull, John Berryman · first published 2016
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I often come back to the Relevant Search book, by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman. I'm sure some of the examples are a little dated now, but most of the advice and approach is still sound and it's a great tour through all the things you need…
on “What software engineers should know about search (2017)” ↗“Relevant search” by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, published by Manning, is THE best book to get started with tuning search engines. I’be been a search engineer for >10 years and this is always the first book I recommend.…
on “Ask HN: Books about full text search?” ↗…expect it to work and when it does they take it for granted, but when it doesn’t it damages your reputation and brand. If you want to get started fixing website search relevance I recommend the books “Relevant Search” by Turnbull and Berryman, and “AI Powered Search” by Grainger, Turnbull, and yours truly. Both published by Manning.
on “Website search hurts my feelings” ↗…markdown for hi-res scheduling your day. - Once I have clarity that I have nowhere else to be and nothing else to do right now, I'm able to relax into reading what I'm reading, which at the moment is: "Relevant Search" by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, which I'm using to improve the search in https://histre.com/ if I may blatantly plug my startup ;) (Tangent: Why is search so broken in all knowledge base apps, bookmarking…
on “Ask HN: How can I restore my concentration when reading?” ↗…Recently, ES released a beta of "App Search" which seems to target more and more the user-facing search bars. Here are also a few resources to help get you an idea: * from Doug Turnbull, author of "Relevant Search" & ES expert: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/06/01/thoughts-o... * from an Algolia & ES user: https://medium.com/@matayoshi.mariano/elasticsearch-vs-algol... * from the Algolia FAQ: https://www.algolia.com/doc/faq/why/what-makes-algolia-diffe...…
on “Ask HN: Algolia or Elastic search? Which one is the best for a search product” ↗Doug Turnbull here, author of Relevant Search. I'm in love with this post. Thought I'd point out I added a few pointers that stream-of-conscioused into my head as I read this! https://medium.com/@softwaredoug/this-is-a-fantastic-post-e9...
on “What every software engineer should know about search” ↗