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7 signs of a broken Site Search

October 17, 2019 Navin Mathew ecommerce search, Site Search0 comment

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures. – Temple Grandin True story! Today the internet has become the final frontier in our search for almost anything we want. A previous post spoke about how you can measure the effectiveness of your eCommerce search engine. But how do you know what you are measuring is accurate if your search is already broken in the first place? Search engines have become powerful weapons of information. Evolving and driving our need for…

Why Site Search is important for your eCommerce business?

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 karanvir Gupta AI in eCommerce, eCommerce, Search Quality, Site Search0 comment

Our experience with Search is defined by how Google and Amazon show up search results for a search query. And so are your shoppers’ experience defined by the same tenets of the search functionality. But why should this bother you as a business? Because you should be showing search results in 0.25 seconds to match the level of expectations set by Google. It also means having a search solution built into your system that can beat Amazon’s A9 algorithm. In short, build a search solution that can give shoppers a…

eCommerce Search: The holy grail of internet happiness

September 26, 2019October 17, 2019 Navin Mathew autocomplete, ecommerce site search, Product Suggestions, Retail Therapy, search relevance, Site Search0 comment

54 million That’s the number of search queries Google will serve in the time it will take you to read this article. That’s about 88,700 searches per second worldwide. And we aren’t even considering the hits from half a dozen other search engines millions of people use. With the sheer volume of content being created, search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing continually index tens of billions of websites every day, so that internet users like you and I can find the most relevant content when we need it. What’s…

The Many Hats of Search

September 18, 2019September 26, 2019 Ankita Tripathi 0 comment

Our one stop destination for any thing that we desire to know is the “Google” search bar. Isn’t it? The easy breezy search bar looks simpler but what lies inside is a complex algorithm giving you results in a mere 0.23 seconds. Google’s search page is tagged as the one landing page for getting answers to user queries, gathering information, or may be looking for another website. We trust Google’s search results because: -the time taken to display the results is extremely fast -the results are highly optimised -it indexes…

Announcing Unbxd Extension for Magento 2

August 5, 2019August 21, 2019 karanvir Gupta ecommerce search, Magento, Site Search, Technology0 comment

To support our customers using Magento 2, we are excited to announce the availability of the Unbxd extension for Magento 2. This extension helps you use Unbxd Site Search with your Magento 2 website. A simple interface will help you configure the extension and provides other useful options. Unbxd extension for Magento 2 works with Magento 2.2 and 2.3 What can you do with the Unbxd Extension? 1. Fast installation: The setup for integration with Unbxd Site Search is ready in seconds. It can be installed using: – Composer –…

Unbxd Advancements in Entity Extraction

January 29, 2019January 30, 2019 Nishant Agarwal 0 comment

Given today’s vast amounts of data and user queries, making e-commerce search engines more efficient is an extremely challenging problem. In part 1 of this blog, I wrote about why e-commerce businesses must explore entity extraction as a way to increase the relevance of their search results. This follow-up blog goes into how e-commerce companies can put entity extraction and machine learning (ML) into practice, and some advancements that Unbxd brought to this area in the last year. What is entity extraction? Here’s a primer: consider the sentence, “Cindy bought two Levi’s…

How to Leverage Entity Extraction to Make Your Ecommerce Search Engine More Intelligent

January 28, 2019January 30, 2019 Nishant Agarwal 0 comment

Online Shopping and Global ecommerce In 2017, US ecommerce revenue was $447B , or 36% of total retail revenue. That means that Americans buy at least one in every three items online. And the most common way most shoppers try to find what they’re looking for, not surprisingly, is search. Are ecommerce search engines doing the best that they can? However, even the top 50 grossing US ecommerce websites don’t do a great job supporting some common types of search queries, resulting in irrelevant products or zero results. For example, when…

Unbxd launches Ranking Insights for Search and Browse

January 25, 2019February 13, 2019 Sashindar Rajasekaran 0 comment

Online merchandising tools can help make life easier for merchandisers and marketers. They simplify boost and bury campaigns creation, enable pinning and slotting, and display product ranking for search queries and pages. However, the data behind why products rank the way they do hasn’t been readily available — until now. We’re excited to announce the availability of this data in Ranking Insights. What is Ranking Insights? Ranking Insights is an enhancement to the merchandising functionality of Unbxd Search and Unbxd Browse. Ranking Insights provides data behind the product ranking for…

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Product Information Management (PIM): Food for AI?

September 12, 2018January 25, 2019 Joel Layton PIM, Product information management1 Comment

By definition, Product Information Management or PIM is a systematic approach to organize all the data an organization has or uses about their products. Last week I discussed how organizations have the ability to make experiences better by adding discipline through enhanced use of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), in this article we will discuss how using the train depot of PIM can drive more effective use of product information when machine learning or artificial intelligence gets involved. At its core, PIM systems take the data an organization has about…

How Relevant is Your Site Search: 5 Elements You Can’t Afford to Ignore

March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 Cheryl Joy machine learning, product discovery, Site Search, Technology1 Comment

Toys ’R’ Us announced earlier this month that they were closing their doors after 70 years in business, ending an era of timely Christmas bargains and birthday toy-store visit traditions. Amidst last minute scrambles for discounts, nostalgic videos of how it all began, and discussions over what’s left to salvage, the story remains the same — online beat retail yet again. We’ve heard the diatribe about innovation disrupting normalcy and changing how things are done in a hundred different contexts before. The industrial revolution made mass manufactured goods accessible and…

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