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

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…

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Unbxd launches Ranking Insights for Search and Browse

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?

Joel Layton , 1 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…

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Site Search and Product Lifecycle Management

Joel Layton , , 0 comment

A long time ago while sitting with then Lands’ End CEO Edgar Huber I remember him saying something that stuck with me till this day, ”Joel, you can make the best website in the world, but if the product is no good it won’t matter”.  It was a magical phrase that made me look at how I envisioned my websites, and especially with apparel, completely differently.  Undoubtedly, as an e-commerce and digital marketing leader with a heritage steeped in User Experience and implementing Site Search systems it was and is…

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

Cheryl Joy , , , 1 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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Why AI in eCommerce is the Partner You’ve Been Looking For

Cheryl Joy , , , , , 1 Comment

AI is touted as the next big thing in almost every industry. From agriculture to transport, there’s barely any industry that is yet to explore at least an aspect of artificial intelligence and how it can enhance it in some way. In the context of eCommerce specifically, the applications of AI go from bots and virtual assistants to its most widespread application — assisted product discovery. But what is product discovery and what role does AI play in simplifying it? Simply put, product discovery is the experience of easily finding…

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Why the Future of Online Merchandising is AI Assisted

Cheryl Joy , , , , 1 Comment

One of the best ways to find the latest fashion trends is to walk into a store at the start of a new season. Almost every brand follows a similar layout — you have your discount racks at the back, the staple essentials in their usual places, and front and centre you have the latest styles and colours of the season. The ones that make it so much harder to walk by without adding them to your cart. It’s easier to resist if you’re closer to the end of the…

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We Won the Retail & eCommerce Award at Amazon AI Conclave!

Cheryl Joy , , , 0 comment

2017 ended with some great news. We at Unbxd, recently took part in the Amazon AI Conclave. And we won! For the uninitiated, Amazon AI Conclave is a two-day event conducted by Amazon to showcase the increasing importance of AI among emerging startups. The event focuses on knowledge sharing and culminates with an award function to recognise pathbreaking innovations in AI. B2B and B2C companies offering AI-based solutions that leverage any of Amazon’s AWS services were open to apply for the awards. We made it to the shortlist in our…

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Evolution of Commerce: How AI is Disrupting the Fashion Industry

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Karl Lagerfeld’s tech-inspired collection took the fashion world by storm in Paris Fashion Week last year. Chanel’s creative director transformed the runway into cyberspace and showcased fashion’s way of acknowledging the role played by technology in the world of fashion. Fashion-tech, as industry pundits call it, has not just begun. Fashion has embraced almost every tech trend — be it wearable tech, social media and influencer marketing, or even VR and augmented reality. Fashion is constantly evolving and so are the technological trends that aid trade in this ephemeral industry. The impact…

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