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Doug Turnbull - Staff Relevance Engineer, Shopify - Search as a constant experimentation cycle

Vector Podcast

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The Importance of Filters in E-Commerce

I think with new dense vector techniques, I'm not sure people are going to like completely throw out their elastic search or solar install just to have this new functionality. And in the case of e-commerce, you also want to have filters. So it feels like we've, I suspect that will be in a world of sort of hybrid more hybrid retrieval where you're using a traditional filter for those kinds of things. But I sense that there is some some truth here, maybe potentially there, you know, some edge cases where it doesn't work or maybe it goes over a second and it's acceptable.

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