AI article
Shopping search translation is mostly query expansion: what 941 real queries showed
Community description: 60% of Hebrew shopping queries get LONGER on the way to the marketplace's English: audience and bundle words, not translation.
Dev.to | Oct 1, 2026 | Ohad Farkash
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I run OneFindMe, a search front-end for AliExpress that takes a query in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, German and eight other languages and turns it into the short English query the marketplace actually indexes. Every row is a shopper's query, its language, and the English query that retrieved the right products. For Hebrew: Average length goes from 2. 35 words to 3. 10.
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