The realization struck me while holding the hand of my seven-year-old son, standing at the precipice of the most giant cliff I had ever looked over. At this moment, his boundless freedom to explore his surroundings took a back seat to his safety. In that precarious and volatile moment, my natural intelligence as a human […]

Last week, I took pains to share with you my experience building Elasticsearch Product Search Queries. I explained there is no silver bullet. And if you want excellence, you’ll have to build it. And that’s tough. Today, I want to show how our OCSS Quick-Start endeavors to do just that. So, here you have it: […]

If, like me, you’ve taken the journey that is building an Elasticsearch retail project, you’ve inevitably experienced many challenges. Challenges like, how do I index data, use the query API to build facets, page through the results, sorting, and so on? One aspect of optimization that frequently receives too little attention is the correct configuration […]

In my first post, I talked about the importance of site search analytics for e-commerce optimization. In this follow-up, I would like to show one way how to easily build a site search analytics system at scale, without spending much time and effort on answering these ever present questions:

Series: Three Pillars of Search Quality in eCommerce In the first part of our series, we learned about Search Quality dimensions. We then introduced the Findability metric, and explained the relationship of this metric on search quality. This metric is helpful when considering how well your search engine handles the information retrieval step. Unfortunately, it […]