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AI BETA SEARCH

davesodaveso Posts: 7,774
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Well, that doesn't work,at all. I asked or ice skating poses, 30 or so items popped up, none had anything close to pose or skating. I tried another and the same results as the first search showed up. The end

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  • FeralFeyFeralFey Posts: 3,948

    I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. frown

     

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,114
    So.. you're saying in a test it's fractionally less catastrophically bad than the standard search? Ahh. Google remains the search tool of choice, then. Regards, Richard.
  • hjakehjake Posts: 1,271
    edited September 7

    FeralFey said:

    I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. frown

     

    I just tried it and nothing happens when I click the AI Search BETA button.

    When I filtered the main store page by your products only 208 showed up. When filtered to your vendor page 209 show up. I own 50 of your products.

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  • FeralFeyFeralFey Posts: 3,948

    hjake said:

    FeralFey said:

    I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. frown

     

    I just tried it and nothing happens when I click the AI Search BETA button.

    When I filtered the main store page by your products only 208 showed up. When filtered to your vendor page 209 show up. I own 50 of your products.

     Oh that's sweet to hear. smiley Thank you for your patronage! (Seriously!!) (I'm currently working on a big project, which I hope to have submitted very soon - just to pique your interest. wink)  I was discussing the AI Search Beta with Code 66 last week and he noticed the same thing when he used it to search for his name. Half the products were his and the other half were Daz O's or unrelated other PA's products. Very weird and definitely a major step below the "non-AI" site search that we've all come to know and loathe. (Yes, Google is the best way to search the site, I'm afraid.) If this is the Beta, I'd hate to see what the Alpha version was like....frown

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,215

    I tried AI Search Beta for "Code 66". It found 40 items. The Artist filter on that page of search results showed 0 products for Code 66. I didn't recognize any of the displayed products as being his, either. AI Search Beta was a  total 100% failure in this test case.
    So, I tried the regular store search for "Code 66", and it found 53 items. The Artist filter on that page of results shows 52 for Code 66. I couldn't recognize which one was not his.
    Next I looked at the Code 66 Vendor page in the store. It shows that he has 76 products, so neither search was very useful.

    Most of the time when I click on the AI Search Beta "button" on the web page, nothing even happens. 

  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,005

    FeralFey said:

    I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. frown

    To note, the AI search will only ever return one page of results, which is by default 40 (although you can make it show up to 80 by setting the page to show 80 per page).

    I will note that I don't think it is (yet) intended as a replacement for the main search, but can match based on the actual product promos rather than merely the product description.

    It's rough around the edges - searches for clothes or hair will often turn up character products which merely use those in their promos - but it does seem that it's often able to find some matches for a description that the regular search can't.

    And I will say that as a Brit, who often runs into frustrations because Americans use a different name for whatever object I need to find on the store or in my library, a search that can match on things other than the exact product text is welcome.

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