On Friday, 19 January 2018 at 23:55:00 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
If anyone is interested in the type of work that goes on in my group at eBay, take a look at this blog post by one of my colleagues: https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/making-e-commerce-search-faster/It describes a 25% efficiency gain via a technique called index reordering. This is the engineering side of the work, I also work on recall and ranking.--Jon
Those long-tail gains are really nice, and the real win IMO.
