How Airbnb is adapting ranking for our map interface.Malay Haldar, Hongwei Zhang, Kedar Bellare Sherry ChenSearch is the core mechanism that connects guests with Hosts at Airbnb. Results from a guest’s search for listings are displayed through two interfaces: (1) as a list of rectangular cards that contain the listing image, price, rating, and other details on it, referred to as list-results and (2) as oval pins on a map showing the listing price, called map-results. Since its inception, the core of the ranking algorithm that powered both these interfaces was the same — ordering listings by their booking probabilities and selecting the top listings for display.But some of the basic assumpti…
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