Ash Fontana: Data isolation prevents Algolia and Elastic from improving search algorithms
Ash Fontana · The Evolution and Impact of AI // Ash Fontana, Zetta Venture Partners · Nov 20, 2017 · at 12:39
Ash Fontana, General Partner at Zetta Venture Partners, explains why incumbent search providers cannot pool customer data to optimize search results.
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“Now, Algolia, Elastic, like, all these companies do that. They make it very easy to deploy a very fast search box on your website, but the thing is, because they guarantee you that they're not going to share any data in any way with anyone they can't really improve that search function over time in terms of, like, the autosuggest results the ranking of the results.”
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