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In this article, I structured the main concepts, best-practices, design recommendations, interaction patterns and visual design considerations for the faceted search. I believe this work covers every aspect of the facet search UI: everything you need to know to create facet search component from scratch or using the ready building blocks from the SAP Commerce Cloud out-of-the-box search module. At the end of the article you will find a summary explaining what features are implemented in the default SAP Commerce Cloud Accelerators; for those which are not implemented, you will find my ballpark estimations of the efforts needed.

What does it mean to be a Product Manager (PM)? What does the search team do? What does the PM do for the search team at your organization…

Tap into your audience's needs and discover how the use of autocomplete in the search box can increase conversions.

The best search experiences feel like they’re one step ahead of you. Create well-crafted search that leaves people feeling confident and satisfied

Word embeddings are a modern approach for representing text in natural language processing. Word embedding algorithms like word2vec and GloVe are key to the state-of-the-art results achieved by neural network models on natural language processing problems like machine translation. In this tutorial, you will discover how to train and load word embedding models for natural language processing applications in Python using Gensim. After

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How you A/B test search affects the kinds of changes you decide to test.

For many search queries, it’s sufficient to rank a set of matching results. But broad and ambiguous queries require a more complex approach.

This scene from Moscow on the Hudson is a parable about information overload in the search experience.

Many of us work on improving search experience. But how do we define improvement? As Lord Kelvin, one of history’s greatest scientists and…

Measuring the effectiveness of your search engine is hard. But you have an army of volunteers helping you: your customers. A great way to…

In the previous post, we looked at measuring searcher behavior in order to evaluate search engine performance. Measuring searcher behavior…

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

Technical interviewing is hard, and it’s a subject I’m very passionate about personally.

When we design search applications, we aspire to make them frictionless. But friction is a valuable signal that we can learn from.

Julius Caesar started his famous text on the Gallic wars with the sentence “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.”

Synonyms are useful, but they aren't a cure-all for search problems.

When I enter a store, my intent is “I want to buy X,” not “Show me products that satisfy characteristics X, Y, and Z.”

Search queries are not the same as intents. By recognizing when two queries represent the same intent, we can improve the search…

In 1992, Mattel released the infamous Teen Talk Barbie, most known — and rightfully mocked — for saying “Math is hard, let’s go shopping!”…

Simple search needs call for simple search experiences. Complex search needs are a different story.

There are lots of articles out there telling you how to be a good manager. This isn’t one of them. This post is specifically directed at…

Behavioral metrics for search usually come from two signals: clicks and conversions. This pattern is almost universal. Almost but not quite.

Sorting by price isn't as simple as it sounds. Why is it so hard?

In our last installment, we learned about the important of metrics and how the choice of metrics is so important to building, maintaining…

In my first post on search I discussed two strategies for human or metrics-centered approaches to improving search. Now, I’m going to…

What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker

Remember way back in my first post on search relevance how I said there’s a statistical and a human-centered approach to search…

In my first couple of posts, I described the need for human- and metrics-centered approaches to relevance improvement and how we can…