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  • Intro to Search: Initial Considerations

    This post is the first in a series about what we learned from developing search products for WordPress.com. In this post, I’ll give you a brief tour of some learnings from deploying search in the WordPress.com Reader. Improving this search tool to help our users find engaging articles they really like is an effort, and an…

    Intro to Search: Initial Considerations
  • State of WordPress.com Elasticsearch Systems 2016

    We get asked periodically about how extensively we are using Elasticsearch. And it has come up twice in the past week, so time to write a blog post. We are constantly expanding what we are using Elasticsearch for and so although some previous posts have broadly define what we are doing, they don’t really capture the…

    State of WordPress.com Elasticsearch Systems 2016
  • Data for nothing and bytes for free

    WordPress.com is a freemium service, meaning that our awesome blogging platform is provided for free to everyone, and we make money by selling upgrades. We process thousands of user purchases each week and you might expect that we know a lot about our customers. The truth is, we are still learning. In this post, we…

    Data for nothing and bytes for free