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Increase Retail Sales with Recommendations
Retailers know that it is harder and more expensive to acquire new customers than to sell new things to existing customers. That’s why they spend a lot on loyalty programs and Customer 360/Customer...
View ArticleOmnichannel Retail Store of the Future
In 2011, Harvard Business Review published a seminal piece on where retail was heading and the challenges it faces in an article titled “The Future of Shopping.” Since then, retailers have adopted an...
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Omnichannel Retailer Personalization Data Sources
Every Omnichannel retailer is seeking to provide better search and recommendations to influence customers and increase conversions. What sources of data should retailers utilize in generating...
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Fusion 4 Ready for Download
We are pleased to announce the release of Fusion 4, our application development platform for creating powerful search-driven data applications. Fusion 4 is our most significant release to date and...
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Lucidworks Site Search is Now Available!
We are proud to announce the availability of Lucidworks Site Search. Site Search is an embeddable, easy-to-configure, out-of-the-box site search solution that runs anywhere. Key features of this new...
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Use Head-N-Tail Analysis to Increase Engagement
One of the most exciting new features in Fusion is Head-N-Tail Analysis. Strangely enough this has nothing to do with shampoo or horses, but it is a way to look at a large set of queries and identify:...
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Machine Learning in Fusion 4
Fusion 4 is the latest release of our AI-powered search platform and one of the most substantial releases to-date. Fusion 4 continues the evolution of our combination of Solr and Spark while adding the...
View ArticleBuilding Image-Based Perception Into Your Search Apps
In this debut episode of Lucidworks Streams, Kord and Michael show you how to add image-based perception capabilities to your search apps with an AI neural network. The post Building Image-Based...
View ArticleUsing Learning to Rank to Provide Better Search Results
Fusion 4 is built with Apache Solr 7. Solr 7 provides a powerful algorithm for improving search results called Learning to Rank, or LTR. At its essence, LTR uses machine learning to teach the system...
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Advanced Spell Check with Fusion 4
Let’s look at how we can extend and improve spell checking within Fusion 4 by utilizing the number of occurrences of words in queries or documents to find misspellings. For example, if two queries are...
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A/B Testing Your Search Engine with Fusion 4.0
From head tail rewriting to recommendations and collaborative filtering based boosting, Lucidworks Fusion offers a whole host of strategies to help you improve the relevance of your search results. But...
View ArticleRetail Recommendations Across the Omnichannel
Over the last few months we’ve been covering how AI, personalization, omnichannel strategies, and mobile technologies are changing the way retail works. This revolution is accelerating and technology...
View ArticleWhen Worlds Collide – Artificial Intelligence Meets Search
We are living in a time when the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Search are rapidly merging – and the benefits are substantial. We can now talk to search applications in our living rooms, cars,...
View ArticleWhy Productivity is so Elusive
There are three major theories as to why the US, UK, and other developed economies have seen a stagnation in productivity growth in recent years. The first is that we’ve already squeezed all the major...
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Enterprise Search Buyers, Your Questions Answered
Enterprise search is to corporate intranets what Google is to the wider internet. When deployed correctly and completely, business productivity can be greatly increased by search functionality. Without...
View ArticleLucidworks Announces $50M in Growth Financing
A very happy Thursday it is! “Today Lucidworks, the leader in AI-powered search and discovery, announced $50 million in growth financing. Lucidworks will use the capital infusion to expand the...
View ArticleIntroducing Activate, the Search & AI Conference
The Revolution has been won. We’re excited to announce that Lucene/Solr Revolution is expanding its coverage this year to include more talks about applied artificial intelligence in the realm of search...
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Smarter Image Search in Fusion with Google’s Vision API
After five days in Mexico with your friends, surfing sunny, secluded point breaks along the Pacific side of Baja, you’re on your way back home, squinting at an overly dense photo gallery on your phone...
View ArticlePodcast: Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
In the below podcasts, Lucidworks VP of Research, Chao Han, speaks about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the life of a data scientist: Chao discusses with Futuretech how her journey as a...
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Five Things You Missed at IRCE18
Some of the Lucidworks gang is in Chicago this week at the annual Internet Retailer Conference + Exhibition (IRCE). Be sure to come say hello at booth #281 if you’re looking for AI, search, or a...
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