Fast Search for eBay

Fast Search for eBay: Enterprise Search Platform

Fast Search for eBay is an enterprise search platform developed by eBay to power search across their massive online marketplace. It enables fast, relevant search results at scale.

What is Fast Search for eBay?

Fast Search for eBay is an enterprise search platform originally developed by eBay to power the search experience across their massive online marketplace. It was designed to crawl, index, and serve relevant results from eBay's catalog of hundreds of millions of live listings and products.

Key capabilities of Fast Search for eBay include:

• Scalable architecture to handle eBay's peak search load of over 15,000 queries per second
• Sophisticated relevance ranking models to ensure searchers find the most relevant items
• Extensive filtering and faceting capabilities to allow easy exploration and refinement of searches
• Sub-second latency for a responsive search experience
• Support for textual content, images, structured data and more in search results

After using Fast Search for eBay internally for many years, eBay eventually productized it and made it available as stand-alone enterprise search software. It provided advanced search capabilities out-of-the-box along with the ability to customize it for each organization's specific search needs.

In 2015, eBay retired Fast Search and transitioned enterprise customers to an Elasticsearch-based search platform. However, Fast Search served as eBay's core search engine for many years and paved the way for future advancements in e-commerce search.

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