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When Personalization Goes Wrong (And How to Fix It)
The idea behind personalization is great. Customizing your website towards your users’ likes and preferences is sure to give them a better experience. Many retailers, however, take the idea and turn the dial up.
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Merchandising in 2020: Managing by Exception
Hours are spent manually re-ranking products by popularity (or even worse, “relevance”), creating synonyms for basic misspellings, adding redirects to fix search engine gaps, finding/fixing zero-result pages, and more. Is there a better way?
11 Internal Site Search Best Practices
Are your search and product discovery experiences not meeting expectations? Here are some things you can do to take those experiences to the next level:
Data Science Paper Review – Anomaly Detection for eCommerce Pricing Systems
Pricing anomalies in eCommerce are inevitable. If they aren't solved quickly, however, they could result in a loss of revenue and customer trust. In this Data Science Paper Review, Constructor's data scientists will walk you through how...
Data Science Paper Review – Dynamic Faceted Search for Discovery-driven Analysis
How do today's search engineers dynamically re-rank facets to help guide users to the products they're looking for? In this Data Science Paper Review, Constructor's data scientists will walk you through a paper explaining exactly that.
High Priority Request Queue with HAProxy
Load balancers help disperse traffic across a fleet of servers using different algorithms. Often we use load balancers to protect our servers from being overwhelmed by limiting the number of concurrent requests to each server.