There are a “lot of struggles” going on around a mobile / web client, and is “not a straightforward product”.The Marketplace rebuild (see my June 2022 and July 2022 summaries) is targeted as a 2023 project.The remaining work for this is front-end related, and is targeted for completion later in the year.Work on Marketplace variances – now called Styles – is progressing, with al the required infrastructure now in place.TPV developers repeated a request for an API to be provided, so the updated search capabilities can be leveraged by legacy search capabilities used by TPVs.The Search team is starting to work on fuzzy matching, which it is hoped will assist those who have typing issues, or form whom English is a second language, so so may mis-spell terms / names.how often do people click on items on the first page of a set of search results as opposed to scrolling down the list), so this information can also be fed back into the search relevance engine. More data is being gathered on users’ search behaviours (e.g.As more searches are made and recorded by the tool, so it is anticipated that more users should start seeing the relevance of their search results improve.With the new tool, issues such as these are gradually being identified and corrected (based on searches users are making) by the tool itself, without the need for human intervention.“Maitreya”), but have to scroll through multiple result before finding the brand store itself. To search for a precise brand name (e.g.“apple” and “APPLE”) and get completely different search results. To search for the same term using different case sensitivities (e.g.Prior to the tool being implemented, it was possible:.This tool has now been in use for a couple of months or so, and LL is now has some meaningful results from it.As a part of (continuing) work to improve web Search, LL implemented a “search relevance engine” machine learning tool, designed to observe how Search performs and gradually improving the relevancy of results.Note: the following refers the web Search and the in-viewer Search, it does not currently apply to the Marketplace. Exactly how these will be used was not specified.The grid infrastructure to support these is now in place.
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Again, the following is a summary of key topics / discussions, not a full transcript of everything mentioned. They are usually chaired by Reed Linden, who is the Lab’s Product Manager for the Second Life front-end web properties (Marketplace,, the sign-up pages, the Lab’s corporate pages, etc.).Ī video of the meeting, courtesy of Pantera, can be found embedded at the end of this article (my thanks to her as always!), and subject timestamps to the relevant points in the video are provided. These meetings are generally held in-world on the first Wednesday of the month, with dates and venue details available via the SL public calendar. The following notes cover the key points from the Web User Group (WUG) meeting, held on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022.