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Printer Paper Three Weeks Later: Recommendation Timing
Cheaper, but not much cheaper — Recommendation slots that stopped eating the margin
Six sizes of one Hand Cream filled the Search page — Spreading Search results by title similarity
You already own this fridge - demoting big items a shopper just bought
Paid to be first, not paid to be wrong - A relevance floor for sponsored Search results
Two Search rankings on one page - Comparing ranking changes in days, not weeks
The second map - catching bad Search results with what people bought together
Trending is a Ratio — What to show before anyone types
Search Autocomplete can point to a category, not just finish your words
The 10K queries that are half your Search traffic: precomputing and enriching them overnight
The weekly hour that beat a Search relevance model - reading the top queries that get no clicks
One row per Search request - the nightly table that replaced a hundred fragile joins
Synonyms in Search are a maintenance nightmare - here’s the shortcut that mostly works
Fixing misspelled Search queries using working queries
Fading out of stock from Search, instead of yanking It
The leash that kept Vector Search on topic
Racing the clock on seasonal stock - A deadline-aware boost that knew where to stop
Search autocomplete is just counting, not predicting
Boosting Search by stock
A two-line formula for freshness on Search that didn’t bury the old stuff
Taming German compound words in Search (without breaking everything else)
Let the clicks speak, a simple popularity-driven ranking
The cheap trick that fixed my Search Retrieval more than any fancy Embedding Model
Your usual milk on the first Search results - putting a shopper's regular items at the top