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The previous two posts focused on using query rewriting to increase recall. We can also use query rewriting to increase precision — that…

This article describes the best practices to build a smart autocomplete feature to increase user engagement by producing relevant listing results for retailers

On the surface, using a voice interface for search doesn’t seem that different from typing text into a search box.

The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance…

Framing the Hurdles to Relevant Ecommerce Search Every e-commerce shop owner wants to achieve ecommerce search relevance with the search results on their website. But what does that really mean? As the German singer Herbert Grönemeyer once stated: “It could all be so easy, but it isn’t”. It could all be so easy, but it […]

Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results…

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Until now, we’ve mostly focused on query processing — which is to be expected, given that this series is about query understanding. But…

Almost any person working with search is somehow aware of Synonyms and their importance when optimizing search to improve recall. Therefore, it will be no surprise to say that adding synonyms is one of the most essential methods of introducing domain-specific knowledge into any symbolic-based search engine.

The most immediate context for a search query is a search session, a sequence of activities the searcher performs in order to pursue an…

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Different forms of a word often communicate essentially the same meaning. For example, there’s probably no difference in intent between a…

Series: Three Pillars of Search Quality in eCommerce In the first part of our series, we learned about Search Quality dimensions. We then introduced the Findability metric, and explained the relationship of this metric on search quality. This metric is helpful when considering how well your search engine handles the information retrieval step. Unfortunately, it […]

Now that we can handle characters, let’s move on to words.

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Faceted search is a simple idea that turns out to be quite nuanced in practice. This post focuses on nuances neglected in the literature.

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