SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCHING

How to use synonyms and synonym filters in Elasticsearch. Synonyms are a powerful tool for increasing the recall of your search system, but there are many subtleties that are important to know and exp...

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

In this series, I’ve focused on the context of traditional search applications, which are the main beneficiaries of better query…

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

In the past decade, the incredible progress in word embeddings and deep learning has fueled an interest in neural information retrieval. An increasing number of folks believe that it’s time to retire the traditional inverted indexes (aka posting lists) that search engines use for retrieval and ranki

Search engines are so core to our digital experience that we take them for granted. Most of us cannot remember the web without Google to…

A sandbox of search design illustrations, including a pattern library for search and discovery.

In 1964, information science pioneer William Goffman said:

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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…

A key application of query rewriting is increasing recall — that is, matching a larger set of relevant results. In extreme cases…

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A well-tuned search experience keeps your users and customers coming back. A poor experience can send them to the wrong pages, or worse, your competitors. Learn how you can analyze search interaction ...

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

In the previous post, we discussed query expansion as a way to increase recall. In this post we’ll discuss the other major technique for…

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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As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the…

Search can be computationally intensive. Indeed, search has been the driving force behind many advances in computational efficiency, from MapReduce for distributed indexing to approximate nearest-neighbor methods.

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Last week Google announced that they were rolling out a big improvement to Google search by making use of BERT for improved query understanding, which in turn is aimed at producing better search results. In short, the goal is to be able to answer natural language questions better than before.

We’ll be focusing on the algorithms or techniques that we used to convert the corpus into a full fledged autocomplete suggester.

Ensuring results are relevant is tricky but critical to a good search experience. Choosing an evaluationmetric to summarize the performance of the search engine can be equally challenging because...

105 falsehoods programmers believe about search, a complex field where competence is hard-won through training, practice, and experience.

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