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The searchable content may be constrained, but the queries aren’t ;) Search is hard because you need to anticipate and model the language of all potential sear
by binarymax 3y ago
The searchable content may be constrained, but the queries aren’t ;)
Search is hard because you need to anticipate and model the language of all potential searchers and the content.
There’s also lots of ambiguity because you’ll only get one or two keywords from the searcher without any other context, and you need to take into account trends and content quality and metadata.
Also, in lots of cases search is bad because the product team either doesn’t know or doesn’t care.
- Solvency 3y agoBut his examples were about hardcoded filters/facets.
- binarymax 3y agoThe examples were about a keyword or two (“lentils”, “laundry detergent”, etc) and filters.
- gukoff 3y agoHe means the last examples about Nintendo.com
- janalsncm 3y agoThe reality is that yes there is a long tail of searches people might search for, but for popular searches like “laundry detergent” you can check them manually. You get a lot of coverage just by fixing bugs from the top N queries.