pencildiver
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Comment · 1 year ago
I'm a huge fan of Cohere. We were highlighted in the launch post and use their V3 text embeddings in production: https://www.searchagora.com/
We're switching to the V4 to store unified embeddings of our products. From the early tests we ran, this should help with edge case relevancy (i.e. when a product's image and text mismatch, thus creating a greater need for multi-modal embeddings) and improve our search speed by ~100ms.
Comment · 1 year ago
>My biggest concern here is some sort of rating system, not so much for products but merchants.
Great idea! We do have a concept of the "Agora Score" for products, to analyze more than just the customer reviews. We'll come up with something similar for merchants to help API customers know which merchants to prioritize.
>If you really want to be innovative try adding brick and mortar grocery stores too.
Absolutely. Just don't know how to efficiently crawl and recrawl their products, without partnering with them directly. Maybe plugging into something like the Instacart API to index local products.
Comment · 1 year ago
>How does this play with copyright on things like the product text and images?
We've been careful to abide by web scraping precedence. So all data we collect from Shopify and WooCommerce stores is publicly available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
We don't own or claim to own the copyright for product text and images. And make this clear with the store name, brand name, website, and more. That all said, we may be able to add a field on the Product Detail API that makes it clear who owns the copyright. https://docs.searchagora.com/api/endpoints/product-detail
>Which legal entity will end customers have a monetary relation with?
Using the Agora API, you become the merchant of record. Customers have a relationship with your app (i.e. Agora is hidden to the end customer). We are working on providing support for passing the payment to the end Shopify or WooCommerce store. We imagine having several payment flow options in the future: process payments on your own Stripe account, process payments with Agora, or pass through payments to the stores.