Eugene Steinberg

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The world of AI is constantly evolving, and recent advances in text-to-image models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have been truly groundbreaking. These models are already transforming how artists and designers work, enabling them to experiment with their ideas and create stun...

Generative AI has gained immense interest thanks to the unprecedented success of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that most of the world has come to love, built by OpenAI. In fact, ChatGPT has become the world's fastest-growing consumer application in history, gaining 100 million users in just 2 months afte...

With tens or even hundreds of thousands of options at their fingertips, shoppers are switching brands at unprecedented rates. While traditional values like price (30%), quality (16%), and delivery costs (15%) are still significant decision-making factors, a report by McKinsey shows that availabil...

Originally published by Total Retail E-commerce has come a long way since companies like Amazon.com and eBay first launched their online businesses. While pre-pandemic online transactions only amounted to 13.8 percent of global retail sales, consumers quickly shifted to online shopping when the...

Knowde, a leading digital marketplace for ingredients, polymers and chemistry, was looking to provide more relevant, timely, and personalized search experiences for their customers. Following a MACH approach to composable commerce, we implemented a powerful new search system that supports: mul...

Ecommerce software has come a long way and achieved remarkable progress, turning from relatively simple applications into complex platforms rich in features and functionality. Back in the days when Amazon and eBay started their first online businesses, monolith architecture was virtually the only o...

Consumer demand for personalized digital shopping experiences has skyrocketed over the last few years, and constant change is to be expected. Add to this the fact that every retail environment is unique, with specific product catalogs and exclusive customer experience needs. One of the most crucial...

Recent years are marked with dramatic change in the business environment driven by the pandemic, economic turbulence and political instability. As Forrester put it, “Constant consumer change is a defining element of the “new normal.” Consumers change their shopping habits, their brand loyalty is sh...

In this white paper, we’ll outline the evolution of omnichannel digital commerce and the 2022 trends shaping its future. You too can curate exceptional customer experiences using cutting-edge digital commerce technology - from composable commerce platforms and AI-powered product discovery to AR, VR...

Visual search is changing the product discovery game for retailers in the accelerated digital playing field. Replacements.com, the world’s largest retailer of tableware, drinkware, silver-flatware and estate jewelry entered the game with a bang! With a catalog of over 11 million products, many with...

Semantic query parsing, described in “Semantic query parsing blueprint”, is a powerful technique to improve relevance of the search results. It has proven especially successful when a search solution deals with semi-structured data, such as ecommerce product catalog, customer profiles or real estat...

Meet Lucy, a nice young lady and enthusiastic fashion shopper. Spring is in the air and Lucy just passed by somebody wearing this truly amazing dress. She positively needs to get something like this, right now. Easy! Lucy opens her favorite clothing store’s website, taps the search bar and type...

The coin recognition system is a great showcase of the power of modern deep learning image processing models. While coins themselves are relatively simple objects, many coins look very similar and it is surprisingly challenging to build a system that can reliably identify a particular coin. That is...

Working from home was never more fun than these days of pandemic and lockdowns. We all stay connected with video conferencing,  and, with obvious benefits of seeing friendly faces of our colleagues, we get all the drawbacks of exposing not-so-glamorous aspects of our work-from-home lives...

NLP technologies are rapidly improving, changing our user experience, and increasing the efficiency of working with text data. For instance, web search and language translation innovations changed our world, and now Deep Learning enters more and more areas. While writing these sentences, the editor...

These days, when machine learning-based result ranking becomes a de-facto standard for e-commerce search implementations, it still relies on the high quality of the matching. No matter how sophisticated your ML ranking algorithm is, if relevant products are not retrieved from the search index, it w...

Machine learning is an essential part of the modern search system. ML models are helping in many areas of search workflow, such as intent classifications, query parsing, facet selection, and, most importantly, results re-ranking. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of expanding the...

In the modern digital world, we still rely on manual data entry for many important business processes. Needless to say, this leads to slower data processing, frustrated employees and costly errors which could be avoided with automated reliable data entry and processing. Often, even the data which...

According to Hedges & Co. report, US online sales of auto parts and accessories amounted to $12B and, while new car sales projection are looking bleak, the future of the automotive aftermarket is quite positive. Both specialized auto parts retailers and online commerce powerhouses like Amazon...

In the  previous article we discussed the Endeca rules model and explained how to re-implement this model using Elasticsearch. We needed to implement inverted search to trigger our rules and we leveraged powerful percolator feature in Elasticsearch which greatly simplified our implementation...

Search engines have been with us for several decades already, and we are using them daily in our digital lives, so why are we still talking about search? Isn’t search a solved problem already? Search probably would have been a long solved problem if human language were a well-defined, thought-th...

Replacements, Ltd. is the world's largest retailer of tableware, silver, estate jewelry and watches, including patterns being produced by manufacturers as well as those discontinued. Customers looking to expand their collections, along with those who have misplaced or broken pieces, use the compa...

Online retailers operating large catalogs are always looking to improve the quality of their product discovery functionality. Keyword search and category browse experience powered by their search engine is a first stage of sales funnel where fast and relevant search results can produce delightful a...

Faceted navigation, a.k.a. guided navigation is a de-facto standard user experience for any serious online retailer. Facets seamlessly introduce your customers to the structure and attributes of an online catalog and provide shoppers with powerful tools to slice and dice their results with useful f...

Online retailers are always looking for ways to provide delightful and frictionless shopping experience to their customers. Product discovery, powered by search and category browsing, stays at the top of the sales funnel and has the highest impact in converting visitors to customers.  At the...

Merchandising is an essential part of modern online retail. Automated merchandising platforms allow business users to control search and browse results by affecting product ranking decisions, providing curated content and referring customers to relevant categories or thematic landing pages. Or...

Since the dawn of ecommerce in the end of the nineties, online retailers have coined a famous “If they can’t find ‘em, they can’t buy ‘em” motto, which stands today as fresh as ever. Online shoppers have a lot of choices, and their patience is getting ever shorter: they expect instant, precise, rel...

Deep-learning powered natural language processing is growing by leaps and bounds. During the past year, latest NLP models exceeded the human performance baseline in some specific language understanding tasks. Source: Facebook AI State-of-the-art NLP models allow AI-enabled systems to repr...

Are only 20% of your product catalog recommendations behavior driven? Product recommendations have become an essential sales tool for e-commerce sites. These recommendation systems typically use collaborative filtering, a common approach for building behavior-based recommendation engines u...

Replacements, Ltd. is the world's largest retailer of tableware, silver and estate jewelry, including patterns still available from manufacturers as well as those discontinued. Customers looking to expand their collections, along with those who have misplaced or broken pieces, use replacements.com’...

A modern merchandising system can provide a guided product discovery experience to shoppers, which is essential for retailers with large online catalogs. These systems and tools allow merchandisers to improve product listing relevancy by controlling product matching and ranking when a shopper see...

“Life is better with art” is the motto of Art.com, a leading global online retailer selling high quality art reproductions. Their site lives up to the motto, as they possess the world's largest collection of art, with a meticulously curated catalog of images, featuring state of the art printi...

Nearly all major online retailers these days support faceted navigation, as it is a key instrument of product discovery. Facets provide a powerful, intuitive way to summarize search results from multiple perspectives. They also offer a straightforward interface to apply filters and refine navigat...

Retail is on the brink of yet another technological breakthrough. AI devices like Siri, Alexa, Google Home, and virtual assistants of all kinds are rapidly becoming trusted and dependable aides to many people. Technology companies led by Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are rushing to grab th...

With an online catalog of over 1M SKUs and a multi-billion dollar e-commerce store, things were going well for the online retailer. However, their search engine’s relevancy was not ideal, hurting their shoppers’ ability to discover the right products and lowering conversion rates. The core pro...

In online commerce, catalog navigation functionality is one of the key aspects of the overall user experience. Customers spend the majority of their time on the site discovering and selecting products and making purchase decisions. The mission of quality search and browse functionality is to prov...

Solr/Lucene has emerged over the last few years as a leading open source search platform for large-scale e-commerce search engines. Systems based on Solr power major sites including Macy’s, Kohl’s, Walmart, Etsy, and many others. An increasing number of tier-1 digital retailers are building their...