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== Cross Team Projects == | |||
==== Page MetaData Parsing ==== | |||
Problem: embedly proxy server has limitations in performance, client-side intelligence in display heuristics, and has a high cost. | |||
Questions and Goals: | |||
* How do we land and prioritize the work to use Local page meta data parsing? | |||
* What dependencies and risks are there? | |||
** Performance could hang the main thread for ~100ms per page till we get Loci/worker queue | |||
** Quality of the parsing results and image identification could be lower than embedly | |||
** Advanced storage of page indices is needed to improve scoring, de-duplication, and intelligence of displayed content. | |||
==== Rank/Scoring heuristics for content relevance ==== | |||
Problem: current query of places.db has limitations in flexibility and inclusion of other signals. | |||
Solution: How can we build system that could help us learn programmatically what types of content is more engaging for users measured by click-through-rate (CTR)? | |||
Questions and Goals: | |||
* How do we land a scoring system | |||
* How can we maintain low latency of computation? | |||
==== Signals ==== | |||
Problem: the heuristics for ranking page value, frecency or scoring, could improve by adding more signals from user activity | |||
Solution: Let's experiment with a basic set of new signals that are already available (e.g. share events, etc...) and add them to a scoring system to test how we can improve relevance to users measured by CTR. | |||
==== Performance ==== | |||
Problem: If we parse pages locally, we need to preserve performance which could be impacted if we parse many pages. | |||
Solution: Loci, a worker queue that could parse pages without blocking the main thread. Advanced storage to store page meta data for fast queries by score. | |||
=Team - RACI = | =Team - RACI = | ||