Chapter 9. Designing a relevance-focused search application

This chapter covers

  • Gathering information before building a new search application
  • Designing and implementing a complete search application
  • Designing a query as a composite of subqueries
  • Balancing query parameters
  • Deploying, monitoring, and improving search
  • Knowing when further relevance tuning is no longer advantageous

In the previous chapters, we laid out all the ingredients for good search:

  • Extracting features from the text of the documents through proper tokenization
  • Defining important signals and creating search fields to represent them
  • Crafting queries that take into account both user needs and business requirements
  • Providing feedback to users in order to guide them ...

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