OSINT

Metadata simply means data which describes other data. Examples of metadata are index, catalog, table of contents, tags, labels etc…

Should you use your query logs or your documents to build an autosuggest corpus?

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

A whirlwind tour of bandits, embedding+MLP, sequences, graph, and user embeddings.

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

The Search PO is the champion who makes sure that the enteprise search initiative meets the needs of the users and the organization.

Thus far, we’ve focused on query understanding at the character and token level. It’s time move up the stack, on to entities and the query…

Search analytics, content reports, and user feedback are tools to measure and improve the quality of enterprise search.

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

Having a deep understanding of people's behaviors, tendencies, needs, desires, and frustrations is important when designing a search solution.

In the previous post, we discussed how query segmentation improves precision by grouping query words into semantic units. In this post…

Backprop makes it simple to use, finetune, and deploy state-of-the-art ML models.

We’ve talked about statistical vs human approaches to search, we’ve talked about metrics, and we’ve talked about A/B testing. Now we’re…

Semantic search is a set of information retrieval techniques to deal with complexities and ambiguities of human language. Online retailers have to deal with those complexities in product discovery to boost relevance and drive conversion

Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with…

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Queries are the primary way that searchers communicate with search engines. But it’s difficult to get started with query understanding…

From Brute Force to Tries, Automata, and beyond.

Introduction

Autosuggest is critical to the modern search experience. Users expect it, depend on it, and it’s particularly important on mobile devices…

How much money are you losing or gaining, depending on a site-search query? You need to be able to know if search is working, and you can with these KPIs!

What are the key roles in a Search Team and how can you find people to fill them both from within and without your organisation?

Using NLP to extract key phrases from documents.

When is search result diversity appropriate? How do you implement it? And how do you trade off result diversity against result desirability?