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Does London Fashion Week Really Get Heads Turning On The High Street?
By German Heredia on 19/02/2019Read moreAs London Fashion Week draws to an end today, we thought it would be fun to take a look at data from one of the world’s largest fashion retailers to see if this huge fashion event actually influences real…
0This Valentine’s Day… did your search experience fill your customers with love?
By Angel Maldonado on 15/02/2019Read moreGifting days can often be a nightmare for people who are desperately looking for the right present. While there is a high purchase intent this is often accompanied by a bewilderment about what to buy that can lead to…
How to set up Synonyms using Synonimize & Play API
By Manuel Fachal on 12/02/2019Read moreGood use of synonyms is essential for providing a positive search experience. In this article we take a quick look at when and how you implement them with our Synonymize feature.
How eCommerce search has evolved with our changing behaviour online
By Jorge Gabriel on 08/02/2019Read moreSearch tools have become the favourite way for most customers to find products in an online store. Where, when, and how that tool is accessed and interacted with now determines whether or not a user will stay in a…
Equalizer: An introduction to search relevance
By Borja Santaolalla on 05/02/2019Read moreThe Search Relevance Equalizer (or EQ for short) enables you to configure the order in which your search results appear by changing the weighting of different criteria.
Gradient Descent: An Algorithm for Deep Learning Optimisation
By David Mestre on 05/02/2019Read moreOptimisation algorithms, used to minimise a cost function against training data, are the cornerstone of many mathematical methods, from simple curve fitting to deep machine learning.
Visual Search is Revolutionising the way we Shop
By Angel Maldonado on 31/01/2019Read moreOver the last few years, visual content has slowly been replacing text to reach its current position as the most important online content. Social networks have been leading the way with this concept shift; in the last year, Instagram’s…
Related Tags: A Design Perspective
By Paula Natal on 29/01/2019Read moreRelated tags do exactly what they say. They show suggested terms associated with a search query. They’re especially helpful when users struggle to generate specific queries, leading to more accurate results and greater findability.
Related tags may also be used…How to enhance your search experience using Related Tags
By Cristian Casais on 22/01/2019Read moreRelated Tags are a great tool to help users to articulate a more specific query. They provide refinement suggestions that are inferred through collaborative filtering (i.e. from user search sessions).
Related Tags are a more playful approach to refining an original…
How to monitor the age of your AWS credentials, using Terraform, Go, AWS Lambda and Slack
By Ramiro Alvarez on 21/01/2019Read moreNot so long ago, the world relied on machines that had to be managed and provisioned manually. Luckily for us developers, the past couple of years have seen a new wave of technologies become the new standard. I’m talking…
How to Measure Search
By Olalla Salazar on 16/01/2019Read moreWhy Site Search matters? Search visits are the ones that offer the highest Conversion Rates and, what’s more, the best engagement with your site. Average session duration and page per session are significantly higher in search sessions than no-search...
Dynamically provisioning Jenkins nodes in AWS
By Roberto Devesa on 15/01/2019Read moreThe saying “Treat your servers like cattle, not like pets” has become increasingly popular among developers in recent years, largely thanks to the proliferation of virtual machines and containers.
Promoting search results through the Boost feature
By Borja Santaolalla on 09/01/2019Read moreBOOST- Promote the products you want in search
The Boost feature in your Playboard is very a powerful tool, in fact, probably the most frequently used one among search merchandisers.
Boosts allow you to promote products in search; that is, to…
Retail predictions for a fruitful 2019
By Angel Maldonado on 08/01/2019Read moreLast year was a particularly poignant year for online retail and innovation. Social commerce continued to flourish with Instagram adding exciting new ways to shop on the app as well as influencing the success of online fast-fashion brands, Marks…
Dear Retailers: Give the gift of empathy this Christmas
By Angel Maldonado on 19/12/2018Read moreThe Christmas tree is up, tinsel decorates the living room and a fire blazes beautifully in the background. The presents start to mount under the tree as we near yuletide; the time for giving, the time for joy and…
eDisMax: Query Parser — A parser to be going mad for?
By Daniel Gonzalez on 18/12/2018Read moreWant to find what you’re looking for? Welcome to parser-dome, search warrior! For Solr to return the results you expect, you need your queries to have an understandable syntax. Depending on the parser you use to transform raw queries…
Research Reveals Consumers Want Better Tailored Experiences Built on Trust and Transparency
By Angel Maldonado on 13/12/2018Read moreEarlier this year we commissioned a piece of international consumer research to explore the behaviours and expectations of modern shoppers in our core markets – the UK and Spain. We wanted to understand what consumers value in an online...
Understanding the basics of Akka HTTP
By Roberto Fernandez on 11/12/2018Read moreFirst of all, Akka http is not a framework, it’s not a skeleton to build your application or service upon. It is instead a suite of libraries that allow you to create a REST / HTTP interface to connect…
Tales from the trenches: getting EmpathyBroker ready for Black Friday
By Samuel Garcia on 07/12/2018Read moreBlack Friday is no joke in the eCommerce world, especially in the engineering domain. It’s the busiest day of the year for almost any eCommerce brand out there, so it creates a series of technological and human challenges like…
Igniting the future of data with Apache Spark
By Edgar Herrero on 27/11/2018Read moreLet’s face it, data has become a crucial and irreplaceable part of today’s society. Data sets of hundreds or thousands of GBs are routinely used, for example, by businesses trying to optimize their processes or even by entire industries…
How to design effective data visualisations
By Jose Cabaneros on 22/11/2018Read moreThe value of data and data visualisations
Whether you’re writing an email, checking your tweets, streaming some music, or Googling life’s most important questions, such as “Can dogs see colours?”, these routine online actions generate large amounts of data. Usually,…Getting Smart with Special Dates
By Angel Maldonado on 21/11/2018Read moreWith the World Cup and accompanying heatwave now a distant memory and summer clothes long buried at the back of the wardrobe, the work really begins for brands and retailers.
6 tips to improve onsite search in Mercadona Online
By Borja Santaolalla on 20/11/2018Read moreLast week, I enjoyed reading ¿Por qué no hay SEO en Mercadona Online? or ‘Why is there no SEO on Mercadona Online?’. I sincerely applauded Jose Tarheel for openly sharing key insights on Mercadona’s product roadmap and digital strategy….
The Quest for the Holy Grail: “eCommerce Search Happiness”
By German Heredia on 16/11/2018Read moreIs it possible to achieve Search Happiness?
As with everything in life, well ok almost everything, when you have something big to solve, the best solution is to follow the path of the partitioning algorithm.How to be more creative
By Paula Natal on 06/11/2018Read moreLet’s talk about the world of creativity and how to generate ideas. When we think of someone creative, the first thing that usually springs to mind is a person involved in the arts, design, decoration…we think of a person…
How do I “Build Products that People Love”?
By Angel Maldonado on 31/10/2018Read moreWhen I attended Mind The Product 2018 recently in London I was excited by the slogan: “Build Products People Love.”
It got me contemplating as to what kind of thinking can deliver the right conditions to achieve such a goal?Above the noise: detecting anomalies in normal signals
By Josian Quintana on 26/10/2018Read moreAt EmpathyBroker we use a variety of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate and monitor the performance of search.
Data visualizations: Why you should be using a two-layer architecture
By Alvaro Diaz on 24/10/2018Read moreCreación de visualizaciones de datos independientes del marco utilizando D3 y TypeScript
The Power of Site Search in Digital Marketing
By Olalla Salazar on 18/10/2018Read moreWe already know, or should know, that a good site search engine is proven to lift conversions. But what about its use as a means to drive, activate or monitor tailored marketing campaigns?
Synonyms in Solr I — The good, the bad and the ugly
By David Arguello on 16/10/2018Read moreSynonyms is one of the most used tools in search as it allows users to manually fix boolean relevancy problems by being able to expand upon terms based on their equivalence. Using synonyms allow users to find documents through…