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So far, we’ve focused on understanding searchers based entirely on the words they type into the search box. But search doesn’t occur in a…

View all of the search engines which offer English-language results the world has to offer and where they get their organic results from

Let’s explore this key bias in search systems towards the old algorithm and how to overcome it!

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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?

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From Brute Force to Tries, Automata, and beyond.

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

For search product teams, search is like baseball, not golf.

Many search engines don’t index “stopwords”, words that are very common and have little meaning by themselves. The stopword list is often just the most frequent words in the langu…

Whether it’s the time of year or the time of day, the time when someone performs a search sometimes help us determine the searcher’s…

In the previous post on query scoping, we discussed query tagging as a special case of named-entity recognition (NER). In this post, we’ll…

Search queries are made up of characters. It’s easy to take characters for granted; indeed, people who have never implemented a search…

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TL;DR: Knowledge graphs are becoming increasingly popular in tech. We explore how they can be used in the retail industry to enrich data…

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Desingning Elasticsearch schemas and queries for E-Commerce websites

Faceted search is a topic broad enough to deserve its own book. It has become a standard feature of all modern search engines, including…

In the past decade, autocomplete has become a required feature for search engines. Today, searchers who type into a search box expect to…

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

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

Search queries that express broad intent often return intractably large result sets. We’ve already discussed faceted search as a way to…

The previous post focused on how to determine the best autocomplete suggestions based on query probability and query performance. In this…

It’s a common fact that analyzing text documents is a tough nut to crack for computers. Simple tasks like distinguishing whether a sentence…