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The Information: Beyond Google, a Search Battle Brews
- mklemme 11y agoAn in-depth analysis into the market split for Apache's Solr & Elasticsearch that Steve Nellis from The Information published this morning. Interesting read breaking down the two major players in enterprise search, and both are OSS and have different licenses. "There’s a shift happening in the software that big companies use to search their internal data. Solr, a decade-old nonprofit-backed technology that’s most popular, is being overtaken by Elasticsearch, free software backed by a for-profit firm selling paid add-ons." What are your thoughts on the rise in popularity with ES over Solr? Is the ES way of charging for add-ons the future of OSS? Disclaimer: Site is a paid subscription news publication, but the article can be unlocked using my share link.
- manuelh 11y agoGoogle is the epitome for paid search/advertising.,... The only big change will come from a truly multilingual search. Some projects in the EU are addressing this need.
- mklemme 11y agoThey are, but I think it's interesting what's happening outside Google's reach. It's become increasingly cheap for companies to store information about each customer, which drives customization throughout that company's product offering. There's a library built on ES that I have been watching on Github which promotes results based on ecommerce conversion data: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick https://github.com/ankane/searchkick