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Improving Search Hits in Typesense with User Feedback

TLDR Krish asked how to improve search hits based on user input. Kishore Nallan answered Typesense would allow manual curation and informed of upcoming updates.

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Dec 29, 2022 (9 months ago)

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Krish

09:45 AM

Hello, could you point me to some documentation that has info on improving the hits? Eg: for certain search queries how do I make the model learn from user action?

09:47

Krish

09:47 AM

If I provide the user a like / dislike button next to the hit, how could I feed it back into my index to ensure everytime the same query is received, the liked responses are sent first followed by the disliked ones.? Of course I'd use some weight mechanism to calculate the likes vs dislikes.

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Kishore Nallan

10:04 AM

This is not something that Typesense can do out of the box now. But its something we're going to work on next quarter.

Krish

10:10 AM

That's awesome. But there should be some hook to influence my hits. For eg: currently the hit order is 1234, but I'd like to show the hits in the order 3241. Isn't something like this possible?

Kishore Nallan

10:10 AM

Manual curation is possible, check overrides

10:10

Kishore Nallan

10:10 AM

https://typesense.org/docs/0.23.1/api/curation.html#create-or-update-an-override

Krish

10:30 AM

OK. Thank you. I'll go through the overrides.

Additionally, could I display the hits first by categories x, y, z always and then the remaining?

10:34

Krish

10:34 AM

I read about pinning the hits, but not sure if the above applies.

10:45

Krish

10:45 AM

Kishore Nallan additionally, could I create search query specific overrides?

Kishore Nallan

10:59 AM

Yes you can create overrides based on both search query and filters (in 0.24)

Krish

11:01 AM

Is 0.24 released? Also, any thoughts on the pinning question above?

Kishore Nallan

11:09 AM

0.24 on code freeze now, RC builds are available.

For prioritising certain categories over others via override you can use something called optional filtering again available on 0.24. https://github.com/typesense/typesense-website/blob/017ab7b2af54697b0602fb4f15976b829147821e/docs-site/content/0.24.0/api/search.md#sorting-based-on-conditions

Krish

11:11 AM

thank you! Taking a look.

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