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Things Not Strings: Understanding Search Intent with Better Recall

For every growing company using an out-of-the-box search solution there comes a point when the corpus and query volume get so big that developing a system to understand user search intent is needed to consistently show relevant results. 

We ran into a similar problem at DoorDash where, after we set up a basic “out-of-the-box” search engine, the team focused largely on reliability.