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Evolution of e-commerce search @ shopping24
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Torsten Bøgh Köster
November 19, 2014
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Evolution of e-commerce search @ shopping24
Held at the first Search Technology Meetup in Hamburg on November, 19th.
Torsten Bøgh Köster
November 19, 2014
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Transcript
Evolution of e-commerce search @ shopping24 Search Technology Meetup Hamburg
Torsten Bøgh Köster (Shopping24) 19. November 2014
Agenda Why search? Motivation & introduction Evolutionary steps taken Advanced
steps Pitfalls
@tboeghk ‣CTO shopping24 internet group ‣University of Hamburg, class of
2005 ‣Likes: search, build, delivery, code quality, road bike
None
Open Source Power. Delivered.
search system architecture overview
Fun fact: <1% visitors actually use the search bar.
Search enables automatic SEA scaling. But what about navigating afterwards?
Agenda Why search? Motivation & introduction Evolutionary steps taken Advanced
steps Pitfalls
Don’t get me started on tokenizing. Move expensive operations (synonyms,
stemming) to index time
German stemming: „Ein_ Geschicht_ voll__ Missverständniss_“: Refrain from Porter and
Snowball stemmer.
Extend recall using synonyms & subtopics, use edismax query parser
with boost terms for high precision. Consider reranking to penalize documents
3 approaches to navigating search results
use facetting to narrow a search result, use adaptive tree
structures
the direct spellchecker in Solr does a great job. Consider
word break. Avoid dictionaries, handle special cases using synonyms (+ custom code).
Use Solrs more like this. Supply terms in mlt request.
Works on >1 documents as well. Filter on gender (and categories).
remove terms from query and retry when hitting zero results.
Uses spellchecker & custom collators
Recycle Solr spellchecker infrastructure to retrieve related brands, categories &
searches.
Agenda Why search? Motivation & introduction Evolutionary steps taken Advanced
steps Pitfalls
TF/IDF ranking does not work for e-commerce search. Consider the
bmax query parser.
first impression matters: use solr grouping and expand to „fold“
similar products.
Separate data & ranking information. Retrieve ranking information from an
external data store (ExternalFileFieldType, RedisFieldType). Use boost functions to mix information retrieved. per document lookup
Agenda Why search? Motivation & introduction Evolutionary steps taken Advanced
steps Pitfalls
Visualize results for the target audience. Separate business from technical
views.
Custom code in Solr is failure by design. You will
inevitably hit garbage collection hell. GC will happen, deal with it.
Ultimate solution: issue replication slots to slaves. Perform Full GC
after cache warming.
Find us on github.com
Questions? @tboeghk developer.s24.com
[email protected]