OBSERVATIONS & USECASES
AirBnb & Vrbo's Greatest AI Opportunities.
AI Driven Contextual Site Search
3 min read | Written By Magnor Maxi
3 min read | Written By Magnor Maxi
Not only is it an opportunity, but it is a big problem solve in terms of user experience and offer availability: Take a look at recent screen recording of a missed opportunity.
I searched for "Cabin in NY", & these quick results appeared
Search on Airbnb
Search on Vrbo
Yes, this is the experience for anyone currently using their internal site search tool looking for an experience at a Cabin.
Obviously, the results are off, i even got an empty search result once i used the experiences refinement tab.
But once search for. "Farmhouse" see the results that appeared
Key Capability & Features
Predictive Recommendations
Predictive search results using Auto Suggest mechanism: Suggesting search terms and recommending results
Relevant Smart Search
Relevant search results rooted in user historical behavior and Document Quality using Pairwise and Listwise ranking as well as AutoML
User Personalization
Personalized search results focused on User attributes for known users like age, gender, location and any other custom attribute.
Insights and Intelligence
You will also have a number of reports and dashboards showing you insights on the performance of SearchBoost.ai, including in your data analytics and in our own dashboard.
Many companies can reap massive gains but a business with model like Airbnb and Vrbo over the web can see a major impact as users have various approaches of articulating what kind of experience they are looking for.
These companies need to do a better job of aligning their existing relevant options with search intends that may not fall under they keyword category defined by their business.