Facets and filters are overlapping concepts with one important difference. Both will help users to narrow down search results but facet is more intuitive and powerful but has more work to design, create and maintain. So faceted search aka facets navigation Read more…
TF stands for term frequency. IDF stands for inverse document frequency. TF-IDF stands for the multiplication between Term frequency and inverse data frequency. Why are these important? These calculations help us in finding out the important words in a text which gives Read more…
What does facet mean? Facets are one of the best methods for narrowing down enormous search results/data to a chosen few depending on some attributes. Histry of facets: Facets have its underlying foundations in the Colon Classification (1933), which was Read more…
Search engines are a crucial component of discovery. Just like the IC Engine is core to an automobile, Search is for your discovery platform. In this Guide, we are going to see how to benchmark your current search engine. what are the Read more…
Ngram, bigram, trigram are methods used in search engines to predict the next word in a incomplete sentence. If n=1 , it is unigram, if n=2 it is bigram and so on…. N-grams- This will club N adjacent words in Read more…
What is stemming? Stemming is reducing a word to the simplest form. For example- running will be simplified to run. While performing a search, the search engine also tries to find not only an exact match to the typed search Read more…
What Is Voice Search? Voice search allows users to get search results by speaking his query instead of typing words. Natural Language Processing(NLP) is used to process and recognize what the user is saying. NLP is at the stage where it can Read more…
Facets allow narrowing down search results/data to a chosen few depending on some field or attributes. According to Wikipedia: Faceted search is a technique which involves augmenting traditional search techniques with a faceted navigation system, allowing users to narrow down Read more…
Expertrec wordpress search plugin helps you build your own custom search engine for wordpress. Expertrec also adds a default custom search template to wordpress. We will see how to edit this template using expertrec’s control panel. Here are steps to Read more…
Here are methods to make a PDF searchable for free. Using Google docs Upload your PDF to google drive. Right click on the PDF and open with google docs. This converts the PDF to text format. Now you can search Read more…