Hamish Ogilvy

Visual Search Technology and Its Applications

A search box is traditionally a text input, so how should it work for visual search? In this article, we'll show you how visual search works, who benefits most from it today, and how Sajari is implementing some real-world visual search features.

Hamish Ogilvy

May 19, 2021

The Most Overlooked Thing Site Owners Forget About Conversion

Site search shows users direct intent, yet it is largely unmonitored and ignored.

Hamish Ogilvy

February 23, 2015

Top Six Reasons Why Your Website Needs Better Search

Your website is likely leaking sales, leads and page views to your competitors or of course, another Google search.

Hamish Ogilvy

March 23, 2015

Duplicate Detection Explained

Duplicate document detection can be done in many ways, Sajari is designed to make that as flexible for businesses as possible.

Hamish Ogilvy

June 9, 2015

Binary Encoding in Go (Video)

Sajari uses the Go language as part of the core technology. Binary encoding is one of the keys to a super fast search index.

Hamish Ogilvy

July 3, 2015

What If Your Search Index Was More Like a Database?

Read about zero-copy, realtime search indexes and how they're powering a new hybrid search engine with amazing possibilities.

Hamish Ogilvy

August 20, 2015

Upgrading Sajari to Go 1.5

Go 1.5 is a major milestone release, so we took the time to run some tests and see what the impact was for Sajari.

Hamish Ogilvy

August 25, 2015

gRPC and the Displacement of Rest-Based Apis

JSON based REST is slow and clumsy once you begin to use gRPC. We've given up almost all our REST based APIs and this article explains why.

Hamish Ogilvy

June 25, 2016

We're Using Kubernetes and Here's Why You Should Too

Kubernetes has transformed the way Sajari develops our backend infrastructure. This article is a brief intro into why we made the choice to use it.

Hamish Ogilvy

July 1, 2016

An Engineering Year in Review: Kubernetes, gRPC, and More

2016 was a massive development year for our team. This post is a quick look at some of the larger changes, why we made them, what we learnt and how these changes have set the foundation for the future.

Hamish Ogilvy

April 11, 2017

Replacing Google Custom Site Search (GSS)

A quick and easy replacement for google site search (GSS) now that it has been deprecated.

Hamish Ogilvy

July 20, 2017

Reinforcement Learning Assisted Search Ranking

How learn-to-rank and reinforcement learning techniques differ, and how we use both at Sajari.

Hamish Ogilvy

January 10, 2018

BigQuery, a Serverless Data Warehouse

Why we use BigQuery for our data warehousing, how we save money, and how it scales.

Hamish Ogilvy

March 27, 2018

The Inevitable Collision of Search and AI Tech

How can we maximize the learning rate and knowledge utilization while an information explosion is taking place? Our founder gives his views on this blog.

Hamish Ogilvy

August 14, 2018

Query Understanding 101

Query understanding is the process of analyzing search queries and translating them into an enhanced query that can produce better search results. It’s one of the most important keys to great search experiences.

Hamish Ogilvy

July 15, 2019

What Are the Tradeoffs Between Schema and Schemaless?

While there's no explicit right or wrong for how you run your app, understanding the costs and tradeoffs between schema and schemaless architecture is critical to making good decisions. When it comes to search, however, there's really only one choice.

Hamish Ogilvy

September 29, 2020

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