What is Quepid? #

Before we go furthur, what exactly is Quepid? Quepid is a tool to help you improve your organization's search results. It is a web-based application and can either be used at https://app.quepid.com or it can be installed on your own hardware. Quepid makes improving your app's search results a repeatable, reliable engineering process that the whole team can understand

Did you know? #

Did you know? Quepid is an open source project open to everyone! If you have a passion for helping others improve search relevance visit the project on GitHub to learn how to contribute.

Quepid was created and designed to address three pain-points often experienced during search relevancy improvement:

• Collaboration - Our collaboration stinks! Making holistic progress on search requires deep, cross-functional collaboration. Sending emails between teams or tracking search requirements in spreadsheets won't provide the improvements required. Quepid provides a centralized user interface for tracking cases, queries, and the judgments given to search results. Quepid's team management provides the ability to organize users into teams along with their associated cases and custom scorers.
• Testing - Search testing is hard!" Yes, it is and search changes are cross-cutting and a lot of changes will cause problems. Testing is difficult because you can't run hundreds of searches after every relevance change. Quepid organizes your test efforts into cases and queries and gives you the ability to 'tune relevance' by modifying your search query. Quepid allows you to quickly re-run your queries after experiments to immediately see the impact on the value of your chosen scorer providing feedback on your experiments.
• Experimentation - Iterations are slow! Many organizations simply give up on search due to long experiment iteration, often depriving users of the means to find critical information. If it takes weeks, or in some cases even days, to perform an experiment, organizations will tend to pivot away from experiments. Quepid works to address this common pain-point by combining an easy-to-use user interface with the features and capabilities needed to increase your experimentation throughput.

For more high-level information on Quepid take a look at the Quepid Core Concepts.

Now that we are familiar with Quepid's purpose and the search relevance pain-points it was designed to alleviate, let's get into the tutorials!