Lead Business Analyst - Ecommerce – Endeca or Mercado
B2B Chicago Distributor
US Citizen, PR or Green Card only
No relo assistance



JOB PURPOSE:
•  Subject matter expert in creating, delivering and managing the Search Roadmap
Endeca based functional improvements for the Global platforms
•  Company is looking to morph from catalog base to a savvy eCommerce firm
•  Excellent understanding of  Product Data and how it ties into Search – core
function of the role
•  To liaise with the global and regional eCommerce teams to solidify and
deliver functional and UI related Search enhancements


15% of the role is reporting with eCommerce team
40% is requirements gathering, road mapping
15% is measurement pc
30% is managing matrix resources – internal ee's, IT & development team from UK

Initially role will be that of a doer – fast paced environment.  Opportunity
affords a vertical leap into mgmt as this eCommerce role grows

No coding and development pc to this role - must be able to hand off
requirements to development – will influence what goes into search platform –
expert understanding of search data – must be able to decrease" no search"
results.  Feedback from stake holders will assess how to blend this into search.


RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Create/build, manage and deliver Search functionality through all Company
websites that currently utilize either Endeca or other Search engines and to
create a roadmap detailing the evolution of the applicable functionality.  This
includes four different businesses involved under parent company.
• Collect and report key search metrics to global stakeholders on a weekly and
monthly basis.
• Collect search requirements from regional and global eCommerce teams, regional
marketing functions within the four businesses in an effort to identify and
prioritize improvements to for entry into the Company agile development list of
prioritized global requirements.
• Help author and then implement the overall Search strategy for all Company
transactional websites, as well as, Community website, intranet, and eSupplier
web properties.
• Monitor and serve as technical expert on all Endeca related search
improvements and to take a leadership role in the quality review and measurement
of those improvements.
• Work with GIS, Endeca and Google to keep the organization up to date with the
latest version based functional enhancements and to make recommendations for
updates based on external vendor roadmaps.
• Work with Infrastructure and Architectural teams to define hardware and
software requirements necessary to support Search related improvements
• Work with UI designers and eCommerce UCD team to benchmark and make
recommendations for UI related Search and Product Data improvements
• Work with Product Data Group to make sure usable product data is returned from
the Search engine following a Customer query
• Serve as the functional subject matter expert and be able to create, explain
the overall Endeca, Google, and ClearSpace, engine related Search vision and how
this vision fits within/compliments the overall vision around Product Data.
• Help to drive the requirements engineering phase of any Search related
projects and participate in work/effort estimation on a per project basis.  The
Business Analyst – eCommerce will also take on a lead role in any QA related
improvement around Search.
• Ensure Regional eCommerce teams are fully trained and exploiting Web Studio,
Endeca Merchandising, Google search and ClearSpace search functionality.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Degree Qualified – BSE (preferred) with 5-7 years eCommerce experience;
Content management Systems, extranets and micro-stores are pluses
• Implementation of Endeca or Mercado an absolute must!  Strong technical
understanding of Endeca (wildcarding, A graphs, D graphs, parametric search,
etc) and other Search applications.  Familiarity with Google and ClearSpace
search a plus
• Excellent understanding of  Product Data and how it ties into Search   Note: 
core function of the role
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills for development
groups and business partners to understand at all levels of the organization
• Strong ability to prioritize simultaneous enhancement requests from various
stakeholders based on quantitative metrics around ROI and CBA
• Excellent ability to translate metrics and analytical data into design and
functional recommendations; work closely with development teams to translate
into technical specifications.  Strong analytical skills.
• Experience of online marketing including; email marketing, SEO, PPC and
affiliate programs
• Required travel of up to 15% to UK and/or APAC.

Qualified candidates please e-mail resume and cover letter to:  
Linda@...
www.BentonSearch.com

I am keen to hear about the self-learning scorer.  Do you need to "seed" this. .
.in other words, how does it get the "best results" up where people can click on
them?

Kathy

--- In search_dev@yahoogroups.com, Arthur Gaasenbeek <agaasenb@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Traditional enterprise search applications like Autonomy or Fast offer
> the ability to tune the relevance.
>
>
>
> Does anyone has experience(good or bad)
> with the Search results Biasing - relevance ranking mechanism of Google
> Search Appliance ?
>
>
>
> The GSA does have some relevance ranking mechanism, Google calls this
> functionality Search Results Biasing.
> Using a simple interface, you can add bias or weight to search results,
> based on the following criteria: Data Source (SharePoint versus File Share),
> Date Bias (Newer is more relevant than Older or vice versa),  Metadata Bias
(Data with a specified Metadata
> parameter is more relevant than other data)
>
>
>
> Next to that Google introduced a new feature for GSA 6 which automatically
improves results over
> time, the "Self-Learning Scorer" –  analyzes employee clicks and behavior
> to automatically fine-tune and improve its built-in relevance. For instance,
if
> most users click on the fourth result for a given query, the GSA recognizes
> that and automatically boosts its placement – without any intervention from an
> administrator. So, After the content is crawled the
> GSA will automatically tune the relevancy taking user behavior into account.
>
>
>
> So, does anyone has experience with this Search Result Biasing and Self
> Learning Scorer ? Can it compete with the relevance ranking mechanisms of
> search applications like Autonomy, fast etc. ?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>  Arthur
>
>
>
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Hi,

Traditional enterprise search applications like Autonomy or Fast offer the ability to tune the relevance.

Does anyone has experience(good or bad)  with the Search results Biasing - relevance ranking mechanism of Google Search Appliance ?

The GSA does have some relevance ranking mechanism, Google calls this functionality Search Results Biasing.  Using a simple interface, you can add bias or weight to search results, based on the following criteria: Data Source (SharePoint versus File Share), Date Bias (Newer is more relevant than Older or vice versa),  Metadata Bias (Data with a specified Metadata parameter is more relevant than other data)

Next to that Google introduced a new feature for GSA 6 which automatically improves results over time, the “Self-Learning Scorer” –  analyzes employee clicks and behavior to automatically fine-tune and improve its built-in relevance. For instance, if most users click on the fourth result for a given query, the GSA recognizes that and automatically boosts its placement – without any intervention from an administrator. So, After the content is crawled the GSA will automatically tune the relevancy taking user behavior into account. 

So, does anyone has experience with this Search Result Biasing and Self Learning Scorer ? Can it compete with the relevance ranking mechanisms of search applications like Autonomy, fast etc. ?

Thanks

Arthur

Lead Business Analyst - Ecommerce – Endeca or Mercado
B2B Chicago Distributor
US Citizen, PR or Green Card only
No relo assistance

JOB PURPOSE:
• Subject matter expert in creating, delivering and managing the Search Roadmap
Endeca based functional improvements for the Global platforms
• Company is looking to morph from catalog base to a savvy eCommerce firm
• Excellent understanding of  Product Data and how it ties into Search – core
function of the role
• To liaise with the global and regional eCommerce teams to solidify and deliver
functional and UI related Search enhancements


15% of the role is reporting with eCommerce team
40% is requirements gathering, road mapping
15% is measurement pc
30% is managing matrix resources – internal ee's, IT & development team from UK

Initially role will be that of a doer – fast paced environment.  Opportunity
affords a vertical leap into mgmt as this eCommerce role grows

No coding and development pc to this role - must be able to hand off
requirements to development – will influence what goes into search platform –
expert understanding of search data – must be able to decrease" no search"
results.  Feedback from stake holders will assess how to blend this into search.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Create/build, manage and deliver Search functionality through all Company
websites that currently utilize either Endeca or other Search engines and to
create a roadmap detailing the evolution of the applicable functionality.  This
includes four different businesses involved under parent company.
• Collect and report key search metrics to global stakeholders on a weekly and
monthly basis.
• Collect search requirements from regional and global eCommerce teams, regional
marketing functions within the four businesses in an effort to identify and
prioritize improvements to for entry into the Company agile development list of
prioritized global requirements.
• Help author and then implement the overall Search strategy for all Company
transactional websites, as well as, Community website, intranet, and eSupplier
web properties.
• Monitor and serve as technical expert on all Endeca related search
improvements and to take a leadership role in the quality review and measurement
of those improvements.
• Work with GIS, Endeca and Google to keep the organization up to date with the
latest version based functional enhancements and to make recommendations for
updates based on external vendor roadmaps.
• Work with Infrastructure and Architectural teams to define hardware and
software requirements necessary to support Search related improvements
• Work with UI designers and eCommerce UCD team to benchmark and make
recommendations for UI related Search and Product Data improvements
• Work with Product Data Group to make sure usable product data is returned from
the Search engine following a Customer query
• Serve as the functional subject matter expert and be able to create, explain
the overall Endeca, Google, and ClearSpace, engine related Search vision and how
this vision fits within/compliments the overall vision around Product Data.
• Help to drive the requirements engineering phase of any Search related
projects and participate in work/effort estimation on a per project basis.  The
Business Analyst – eCommerce will also take on a lead role in any QA related
improvement around Search.
• Ensure Regional eCommerce teams are fully trained and exploiting Web Studio,
Endeca Merchandising, Google search and ClearSpace search functionality.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Degree Qualified – BSE (preferred) with 5-7 years eCommerce experience;
Content management Systems, extranets and micro-stores are pluses
• Implementation of Endeca or Mercada an absolute must!  Strong technical
understanding of Endeca (wildcarding, A graphs, D graphs, parametric search,
etc) and other Search applications.  Familiarity with Google and Clearspace
search a plus
• Excellent understanding of  Product Data and how it ties into Search   Note: 
core function of the role
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills for development
groups and business partners to understand at all levels of the organization
• Strong ability to prioritize simultaneous enhancement requests from various
stakeholders based on quantitative metrics around ROI and CBA
• Excellent ability to translate metrics and analytical data into design and
functional recommendations; work closely with development teams to translate
into technical specifications.  Strong analytical skills.
• Experience of online marketing including; email marketing, SEO, PPC and
affiliate programs
• Required travel of up to 15% to UK and/or APAC.

Qualified candidates please e-mail resume and cover letter to:  
Linda@...
www.BentonSearch.com

Rakesh,

Maxmerge merges partition (files in the parts directory of your collection). Try
to run

   mkvdk -collection <path> -optimize tuneup-squeeze-ngramindex

Tuneup is a combination of maxmerge and spanword (creates a spanning word list,
which is a list of all words from all partition files).
Squeeze removes all deleted files (normaly deleted files are only flagged as
deleted).
ngramindex speeds up wildcard searches. You can only use this flag if you also
build a spanning word list.

You also might want to run the optimize with the maxclean flag, which removes
unused partition files but you can only do that on an offline collection.

Regards,

Fokke Oosterhoff
KnowledgePlaza
f.oosterhoff@...

--- In search_dev@yahoogroups.com, rakesh kumar <joinrakee2004@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We use LiveServer verity k2 server search engine for indexing xml files.
Currently we have about 200K files that have been indexed.
>
> But with the UI search, We feel the results are coming slow. How can i modify
indexes to make searches faster.
>
> I have tried mkvdk collection -path -optimize maxmerge, merging partitions.
>
> Is there some more commands that can help me optimizing indexes amd make
searches faster.
>
> One more doubt i have is :: mkvdk collection -path -optimize maxmerge
> says mkvdk done in 2-3 seconds.
>
> But the index size is nearly 1 gb. Doesn't it take more time doing the
operation. Does mkvdk done mean the operation is done.
>
> Please do reply,
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Regards,
> Rakesh.
>
>
>
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We've just put the final touches on the annual SearchDev dinner in conjunction
with the Enterprise Search Summit West next week in San Jose, California. Anyone
who attends the conference, or anyone in the Bay Area, is welcome to attend.

Lucid Imagination is sponsoring the dinner this year along with New Idea
Engineering, which will be held on Wednesday night, November 18, at 6PM in the
San Jose Hilton, adjacent to the convention center.

Seats are limited, so if you think you will want to attend, please RSVP today to
info(at)ideaeng.com with your name and names of the folks who will join you. Of
course, replace the (at) with @...

Miles