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Want to get people back into the office? Give them offices!

As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes the COVID-22 pandemic, it seems increasingly unlikely that we may ever return to the office full-time. For…

Dec 3, 2021

a row of offices with sliding glass doors, with whiteboards, in an Apple office in Cupertino. Having offices with doors is probably why Apple is a trillion dollar company, I’m sure of it.

Dec 3, 2021

Search Product Management: The Most Misunderstood Role in Search?

What does it mean to be a Product Manager (PM)? What does the search team do? What does the PM do for the search team at your organization…

Dec 11, 2020

A wagon wheel with multiple disciplines as the spokes and PM as the hub. They’re not more important, but they’re the hub

Dec 11, 2020

The Launch Review: bringing it all together …

We’ve talked about statistical vs human approaches to search, we’ve talked about metrics, and we’ve talked about A/B testing. Now we’re…

Sep 16, 2020

The Launch Review: bringing it all together …

Sep 16, 2020

How to spot pseudoscience on the internet — a case study with masks

The great advantage of the internet is that it allows anyone to publish anything (shout out to Medium!). The old gatekeepers are gone, so…

Aug 26, 2020

How to spot pseudoscience on the internet — a case study with masks

Aug 26, 2020

A/B Testing Search: thinking like a scientist

In our last installment, we learned about the important of metrics and how the choice of metrics is so important to building, maintaining…

Aug 21, 2020

The scientific method, an oroborus of learning

Aug 21, 2020

Measuring Search: Metrics Matter

What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker

Jul 6, 2020

Measuring Search: Metrics Matter

Jul 6, 2020

Query Triage: The Secret Weapon for Search Relevance

Remember way back in my first post on search relevance how I said there’s a statistical and a human-centered approach to search…

Jun 4, 2020

Query Triage: The Secret Weapon for Search Relevance

Jun 4, 2020

Setting up a relevance evaluation program

In my first couple of posts, I described the need for human- and metrics-centered approaches to relevance improvement and how we can…

May 29, 2020

Setting up a relevance evaluation program

May 29, 2020

Measuring Search, A Human Approach

In my first post on search I discussed two strategies for human or metrics-centered approaches to improving search. Now, I’m going to…

May 18, 2020

Measuring Search, A Human Approach

May 18, 2020

Statistical and human-centered approaches to search engine improvement

For search product teams, search is like baseball, not golf.

May 8, 2020

search is like baseball, the more chances we take the more likely we’ll be successful

May 8, 2020

James Rubinstein

James Rubinstein

Search nerd, data nerd, and all-around nerd-nerd. He has worked at eBay, Apple, and Pinterest, and currently leads the Product Analytics team at LexisNexis

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