Comments on: The high bar for relevancy? http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/10/04/the-high-bar-for-relevancy/ Exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source search technology Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Walter Underwood http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/10/04/the-high-bar-for-relevancy/comment-page-1/#comment-3834 Walter Underwood Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:30:35 +0000 http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/?p=1205#comment-3834 Netflix may be an extreme case of known-item search, where people are always looking for the title (or a person) instead of a class of things. In addition, the studios spend millions of dollars teaching those titles (the search terms) to people. That doesn't mean that people can spell "Ratatouille" or "Coraline", but it helps. At a site selling cordless drills or fleece jackets, I seriously doubt you would get 85% of clicks on the first result. That would be dominated by informational searches, not known-item, known-title searches. If your site deals with mass-market artistic works (books, film, music), the searches might look more like Netflix's. Thanks for the writeup, it was a fun meetup with lots of good presentations. The Babbage engine is amazing, too. Netflix may be an extreme case of known-item search, where people are always looking for the title (or a person) instead of a class of things. In addition, the studios spend millions of dollars teaching those titles (the search terms) to people. That doesn’t mean that people can spell “Ratatouille” or “Coraline”, but it helps.

At a site selling cordless drills or fleece jackets, I seriously doubt you would get 85% of clicks on the first result. That would be dominated by informational searches, not known-item, known-title searches.

If your site deals with mass-market artistic works (books, film, music), the searches might look more like Netflix’s.

Thanks for the writeup, it was a fun meetup with lots of good presentations. The Babbage engine is amazing, too.

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