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Automatic Query Generation launches into Private Beta today! Great search comes from great finetuning — and that all starts with queries & labeled results. Query Generation does the heavy lifting for you, building a set of unique common (and uncommon!) search queries tailored to your Objects. The team here at Objective HQ already uses Query Generation every day, and we’re excited to make it available to everyone in Private Beta now. Go check it out! https://lnkd.in/guTmaEMg

Building a search app & want to inject context at query-time? You’re in luck, because today Ranking Signals ships into Private Beta! It’s a wicked-powerful way to inject context & conditional logic into a search request at query-time that you can use to affect the weighting of results. Anything from a seasonal promo, to views of popular products, to data about your search user — or pretty much anything else you can imagine. If you have a Private Beta account, check it out now in your Console!

Thinking about what to build this weekend? Check out Highlights in the Objective API — enabling Highlights on your Index cranks up the fidelity of deep text searching on your search index, letting you do things like semantically search a collection of thousands of long text articles and return the exact paragraph that matches the human meaning of your query. All the power of AI-native search, with all of the messy chunking handled intelligently for you 🔎⚡

If you were thinking about doing some Finetuning this weekend, your weekend just got a bit brighter! The new Finetuning section of Console shipped this week, giving you all the power of the Finetuning API with the click of a button. 🔎⚡ If you're part of the Private Beta, check it out now in your account! If you don't have an account yet, jump on the Private Beta waitlist! https://lnkd.in/g4rE-nNm

Modern ecommerce is about search at every layer of the experience. But we talk to a lot of online retail teams who feel stuck with an existing frozen, legacy search implementation and don't know how to make the jump to an AI-native platform that lets them get back to iterating. Worse still, when search is a monolith it's almost impossible to make search a tool your team can use to innovate on user experience. Fortunately, we're also seeing companies like Styl AI, Pod Foods, and Lilo that are breaking new ground in using search at every layer of the user experience. Your search platform should work for you, not the other way around.

Last week we released our finetuning APIs for search, making it easy to improve relevance. We're seeing massive improvements even with just a few examples. We created a quickstart notebook to show how easy it is to get started - https://lnkd.in/gS9Cw5Mq

As always, the team here at Objective HQ has been busy shipping during May, with Geofiltering & Text Highlights shipping into Private Beta, and some superb customers building the future of search 🔎⚡

If you love Python and super relevant search results like we do, check out co-founder Lance Hasson doing some live coding to show off the new Finetuning API that launched this morning

Objective Finetuning shipped into Private Beta this morning! You can now bring your own training data to tune the behavior of your search results. And we have customers that are already seeing a 25% boost in relevance, all with a single API call. If you have a Private Beta account, go finetune your search results today, not in “Q4ish”. 🔎⚡ Jungmin Hwang, a Product Manager at Pod Foods, had this to say about Objective Finetuning — “Our users search brand names a lot — when someone searches a brand like ‘Better Sour’, we also want to be able to surface other related sour candies. Before using Finetuning, only 20% of search results for the ‘Better Sour’ query were relevant, and following the direct brand matches the results would drift into other ‘sour’ items like strawberry sparkling water and kombucha. After providing just a few ‘GREAT’ and ‘BAD’ match grades to Finetuning our new model returns 100% relevant results, pulling in sour candies from other brands. This new process of teaching rather than programming the matching algorithm saved me countless development hours.” https://lnkd.in/gRr2mHfb

Another weekend, another weekend hacking project! If you haven't checked it out yet, our Next.js e-commerce demo is a great way to bootstrap building a modern multimodal product search interface with Objective. AI-native right out of the box 🔥 https://lnkd.in/gY7kEwPb