Episode notes
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpua1Euc-B8
Topics:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Doug’s story in Search
04:55 How Quepid came about
10:57 Relevance as product at Shopify: challenge, process, tools, evaluation
15:36 Search abandonment in Ecommerce
21:30 Rigor in A/B testing
23:53 Turn user intent and content meaning into tokens, not words into tokens
32:11 Use case for vector search in Maps. What about search in other domains?
38:05 Expanding on dense approaches
40:52 Sparse, dense, hybrid anyone?
48:18 Role of HNSW, scalability and new vector databases vs Elasticsearch / Solr dense search
52:12 Doug’s advice to vector ...