Daria Sorokina Amazon Search: The Joy of Ranking Products MLconf SF 2016

Amazon Search: The Joy of Ranking Products: Amazon is one of the worlds largest ecommerce sites and Amazon Search powers the majority of Amazons sales. As a consequence, even small improvements in relevance ranking both positively influence the shopping experience of millions of customers and significantly impact revenue. In the past, Amazons product search engine consisted of several handtuned ranking functions using a handful of input features. A lot has changed since then. In this talk we are going