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Last updated 10 months ago

These docs describe the development of our search engine and the systems we've used to test it.

The story so far

We began with a to measuring relevance, running candidate queries against each other in AB tests, and taking incremental steps based on some illustrative metrics. After a few months of development, we found that this approach was insufficient to drive the development of new features safely or reliably. Most of this documentation is now outdated as a result.

Instead, we started developing , a system which uses known examples of tricky search-term / document pairs to constrain the query. Rank is the system we use to develop queries and mappings today.

Current queries

You can read an explanation of the current queries' structure .

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