The team just released changes to Live Product Search that boost customer-perceived relevance by increasing the number of query results with images. The table below summarizes the improvement.
Why aren’t there 100% images in the top results? The reason is largely because many sites, including very reputable merchants like Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and AceHardwareSuperStore.com, block image crawling bots or seriously throttle them. We will have to work with these sites to address these issues, but the latest improvements in the number of Product Search top results with images are already quite significant.
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Before |
After |
Improvement |
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Percent of Top Results with Images |
79.2% |
88.6% |
+9.4% |
Below you will find a before and after comparison for “zune player.” Note that not all results are as relevant- and image-packed as highlighted in “After” but this is a good example of our improvement.
Before
After
Find out more on the Live Product Search team blog post!
— Ling Bao, Live Search