Building a E commerce search engine: Challenges, insights and approaches

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Describes challenges specific to building e-commerce search engines (distinct from general web search) when handling large-scale text and non-text data such as product information and user activity. Covers insights from that problem space and outlines approaches for designing and implementing a production-grade product search engine.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:48Page rank of E-commerce
3. 12:54What is a document?
4. 16:20Lesson
5. 17:10News and Seasonality
6. 19:22Question
7. 20:02Experiment
8. 22:50How to identify Mannequin Products
9. 30:16Take aways

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