Acknowledgments

Weeks before we began Relevant Search, both of us welcomed new babies into our families. Our deepest thanks and love go to our spouses, Khara Turnbull and Kumiko Berryman. They suffered through many consecutive weekends of book writing—all while Khara finished her own book and Kumiko managed a cross-country move and a home sale. Time for a big vacation!

Relevant Search wouldn’t be possible without OpenSource Connections founder Eric Pugh. As our “boss,” he pushed us into the limelight to write, speak, and solve the big problems. As a leader, Eric makes your passion his passion. Without Eric taking the training wheels off (and sometimes insisting on a unicycle), we wouldn’t have realized how capable we are as writers or problem solvers. Eric has taught us that everybody can be a thought leader, including us.

Thanks to TMDB for its data and support. We spent a lot of time trying to find good data sets. TMDB (http://themoviedb.org) not only provides a rich search data set, but also supported us and our early readers as we ferreted out bugs and issues, usually in our own code. Travis Bell, in particular, deserves our thanks for responding promptly to our issues and emails.