About Trey

Founder @ Searchkernel, author of
AI-Powered Search and Solr in Action, startup Advisor, researcher/ public speaker on search, relevance & ranking, recommendation systems, and natural language processing.

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After a wonderful time last year, I was able to present yet again this year’s Lucene Revolution conference in Boston.  Lucene Revolution is a yearly conference put on by Lucid Imagination, a company focused upon supporting and commercializing the open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies (and integrating them with related technologies). My talk […]

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I recently gave a presentation at Lucene Revolution 2011 out in San Francisco.  The title of my topic was “Extending Solr: Building a Cloud-like Knowledge Discovery Platform.” Video: Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/treygrainger/extending-solr-building-cloudlike-knowledge-discovery-platform Talk Summary: For CareerBuilder, a 1% deviance in search relevancy can mean millions of missed job opportunities for our users. When CareerBuilder moved to Solr […]

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