Search relevance consultant. Author of Relevant Search. Doug crafts search/recommendation solutions that “get” users. To do this, Doug uses Solr, sprinkling a little natural language processing and machine learning on top for good measure. Through writing and speaking Doug wants to democratize machine learning, search, and recommendations, making these topic less intimidating for everyone: developers, non-technical folks, and users. Doug loves building tools to help with search relevancy, including Quepid, Splainer and Elyzer.