The Journey to Hybrid Search at OLX Brasil

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timotta · 7h ago

This is the story of how we improved the search experience at OLX Brasil in early 2024 by introducing semantic search. All major players in search are investing in hybrid approaches, because they’re not only proven to deliver better results, but also offers better scalability for product development by avoiding manual tuning of lemmatization, synonyms, and other linguistic rules.

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The Journey to Hybrid Search at OLX Brasil

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