AI-Powered Natural Language Search Revolutionizes Shopping

Discover AI-powered natural language search at Walmart! Describe your needs like "a unicorn-themed party for my daughter" and get a curated list of products. No more keyword searches—find relevant items effortlessly. Learn how vector search transforms shopping!

AI-Powered Natural Language Search Revolutionizes Shopping
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This is what AI-powered natural language search looks like at scale.

Walmart shoppers can search by describing what they want. Like "a unicorn-themed party for my daughter" and receive a curated list of products — instead of searching item-by-item with keywords.

How it works 👇

  • Instead of matching on keywords for search, e.g. "balloons", "face paint", etc.
  • Natural language search (A.K.A. vector search) can match based on similar meaning. The search is looking for products with a description that you'd associate with something like "a birthday for kids".
  • For example, "balloons" and "face paint" are words you would associate with a kids birthday party.
  • So these products are considered relevant, even though the customer didn't use any of those words.

One final example 👇

  1. Consider the search term "kitten". In a vector search world, words similar to this are; cat, dog, wolf.
  1. And other similar phrases would be "small fury and cute" or "whiskers".
You can see a visual of this to get an idea of how the maths that powers the search actually works.

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Alex Rainey
Alex Rainey

Alex is an experienced CTO and founder who largely focuses on all the technical areas of My AskAI, from AI Engineering, Technical Product Management and overall Platform Development.