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You wouldn't believe what they paid for it. Serious money for "enterprise search and guided navigation". According to the guy that implemented it, they totally missed the point and insisted that the old style search be replicated precisely. He maintains that if they had used the technology properly, it would work much better.
Of course, during a demonstration by the technology company to us, they showed just how great it is by searching for "small" and "camera". Lots of small, camera-related stuff, like memory cards, but no small cameras. Genius.
Of course, during a demonstration by the technology company to us, they showed just how great it is by searching for "small" and "camera". Lots of small, camera-related stuff, like memory cards, but no small cameras. Genius.
I used it a bit a few months ago when looking for a car. I wouldn't have thought many people would use the keyword search on Autotrader. Searching with just the dropdowns works OK except when the data isn't clean.
I just looked up what search indexing they are using. Miniman from my very small experience, keyword searches like that need to be 'tuned' in the system, if your users are likely to search with adjectives like that, ie you might map small to compact so compact cameras are returned.
I just looked up what search indexing they are using. Miniman from my very small experience, keyword searches like that need to be 'tuned' in the system, if your users are likely to search with adjectives like that, ie you might map small to compact so compact cameras are returned.
Edited by zac510 on Saturday 25th October 17:12
zac510 said:
I just looked up what search indexing they are using. Miniman from my very small experience, keyword searches like that need to be 'tuned' in the system, if your users are likely to search with adjectives like that, ie you might map small to compact so compact cameras are returned.
Absolutely, the rules need to be carefully set up and the search technology is only as good as the data it is given to work with and the tuning that is done. It just amused me that a technology company would demonstrate an electronic goods site and search for "small camera" without first checking that it would return some small cameras. Ironically Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) will do very similar things to the kit that is behind Autotrader, but it's free
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