Greetings from the OpenSource Connections Team! We're happy to announce we've taken core sandbox of our search relevancy product Quepid and open sourced it as "Splainer" (http://splainer.io). Splainer is a search sandbox that explains search results in a human readable form as you work. By being a *sandbox* it differs from parsing tools such as explain.solr.pl by letting you tweak and tweak and tweak without leaving the tool itself. In short, it helps you work faster to solve relevancy problems.
Simply paste in a Solr URL and Splainer goes to work. Splainer is entirely driven by your browser (there's no backend -- its all static js/html/css and uses HTML local storage to store a few settings for you). So if your browser can see it, Splainer can work with it. Anyway, we've started getting great use out of the tool, and would also like to gather feedback from the community by sharing it. We're open to ideas, bug reports, pull requests, etc. Relevant links: Blog Post announcing Splainer: http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/08/18/introducing-splainer-the-open-source-search-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/ Splainer: http://splainer.io Splainer on Github (open sourced as Apache 2) http://github.com/o19s/splainer These features (and a ton more) are also in our relevancy testing product Quepid: http://quepid.com Bugs/feedback/complaints/ideas/questions/contributions/etc welcome. Thank you for your time! -- Doug Turnbull Search & Big Data Architect OpenSource Connections <http://o19s.com>
