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How We Use Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Empower Search

How We Use Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Empower Search

Avatar Suyash Sonawane October 15th, 2018

Search is critical to the customer experience at Wayfair. What we show on the first page of results is incredibly important for users. The graph below shows what many people might already know when it comes to browsing and search habits: The majority of customers rarely look beyond the products…

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Improving German Solr/Lucene search results

Improving German Solr/Lucene search results

Ben Clark Ben Clark August 16th, 2013

On the search and recommendations team at Wayfair, we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated men and women of the world.  We have speakers of French, Chinese, Hebrew, German and Persian in the crew.  Some of us host couchsurfers at our swanky apartments, and then turn around and couchsurf…

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Better three-word searches with SOLR

Ben Clark Ben Clark October 5th, 2012

We use the Apache SOLR search platform behind the scenes at Wayfair.  Sometimes, when vanilla SOLR doesn’t quite do what we want, we improve it for our purposes. When we suspect that others might have the same purposes, and we think that we have solved our problems in a generally…

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