I second this recommendation, I used Relevant Search to build https://www.findlectures.com

Thanks! (This is Doug Turnbull :-p).

I enjoy reading Doug Turnbull's blog and most of his writing, but I found this book tedious. I purchased it despite reading that terrible first chapter which is available as a free sample. Perhaps it could be that I am already too well-versed in the subject.

Any book where you learn at least one thing new is always worth it, so I do not regret having this book in my library.

Thanks for the kind words and the useful critique. I found it tricky to strike a balance between new budding search devs and people more advanced. I may write a more advanced book at some point.

And thank you for considering my reply as "kind words". :) I would not have been so harsh if I knew you were going to read the reply! That first chapter though. So many points repeated.

For those that want to read more: http://opensourceconnections.com/about-us/doug-turnbull/ or really anything at http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/

Haha. That chapter was revised a lot and ultimately shortened a ton in the final version. I agree it had a lot of repetition. Hopefully it's better in the final printing.

I read the advance version of the first chapter and never the one in the actual book when it finally was released. Will see if I have that original version and do a comparison.

I tried to see your talk at last year's Elaticon, but it was packed due to the small room. Not surprising since Elasticsearch tends to minimalize search in favor of analytics/logging. So few talks regarding pure search.

Thank you for the book suggestion. Happy you found the article informative!