Couponlooker Search Improvements
Posted on April 21st, 2007 in Couponlooker, Judy's Book, Product |
On Thursday we released a number of couponlooker search improvements. You can now use quotes around phrases to get an exact match and use the ‘+’ and ‘-’ operators to require or exclude specific terms. In addition, multi-word query performance has been improved as well. Response overall has been very encouraging so far and we’re getting requests for index-inclusion from coupon sites that were not in the initial set.
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[...] Rahul writes about our latest update to CouponLooker. This is our third and its one of the more exciting things to me how quick it is to update and tweak the search algorithm. There are some pretty sophisticated things going on inside the engine but things have been designed with an eye towards flexibility and rapid iteration. I’m sure the equivalent results could be done with an approach that uses half as many CPU cycles, but frankly CPU cycles are relatively cheap now and making rapid improvements are invaluable. [...]