Ecommerce Search Architecture: A Modern Reference Stack (2026)
Ecommerce search breaks when it’s treated as a tool instead of a system. At small scale, feature-driven search works well enough. As catalogs grow, queries diversify, and AI layers are added, that framing collapses. Teams respond by stacking fixes—synonyms, rules, boosts—without addressing the underlying structure. Most modern search failures are not caused by weak algorithms....