“Relevant search” by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, published by Manning, is THE best book to get started with tuning search engines.
I’be been a search engineer for >10 years and this is always the first book I recommend.
I’be been a search engineer for >10 years and this is always the first book I recommend.
After I read it...
"...I knew NOTHING about search."
No book has ever knocked me off my pedestal so brutally and so thoroughly.