OT: Indexing reordering in the eBay Search Engine

[sarn]

On Friday, 19 January 2018 at 23:55:00 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
> If anyone is interested in the type of work that goes on in my 
> group at eBay, take a look at this blog post by one of my 
> colleagues: 
> https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/making-e-commerce-search-faster/
>
> It describes a 25% efficiency gain via a technique called index 
> reordering. This is the engineering side of the work, I also 
> work on recall and ranking.
>
> --Jon

Those long-tail gains are really nice, and the real win IMO.