eBay Gets New Search Engine
August 10, 2013
An article from Ecommerce Bytes shares information, through the form of an interview, on an update to eBay’s search engine. Cassini is the name of the new search system according to “eBay’s Hugh Williams Explains Cassini Search, Part One.” Many were reported to have questions about why Cassini was rolled out. We enjoyed reading Williams’ framing of the conversation when he stated that most people do not have the same computer that they had ten years ago.
The upgrades to eBay’s search technology were addressed from many angles. Not only the ranking algorithms were tweaked, but also the search systems that process users queries and the machines and scales it runs on.
Williams offers a metaphorical point of comparison for the upgrade:
“An analogy might be, Voyager is a really nice toolbox. You open up the toolbox and get out a few tools and build. I feel like Cassini is more like a fully featured garage with walls of tools that you can use to get out and build great solutions for our customers. It’s is a stack, if you like, it’s all of those things. It’s really a complete ground up rebuild of the whole search technology stack.”
We had not noticed that eBay rolled out this new search engine, but it is good to know that they are working away at search.
Megan Feil, August 10, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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