Skill in Search and recommendation

Search relevance

Making search return the right results, and knowing that it does.

On Wikipedia: Relevance (information retrieval)

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A Primer on Search Relevance

How search engines find and rank results, and how to measure whether a change helps: lexical, semantic and hybrid retrieval, reranking with learned models and LLMs, and judgments from people and LLMs, on a real product catalog.

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