Nestoria UK Blog

Fellow Nestorlinians,

As is our habit, from time to time we like to update you on our efforts to improve the quality of the property search experience on Nestoria. We put a great deal of effort into addressing all aspect of a high quality search experience, not least being relevance. I’m thus please to reveal that this week we went live with a significant improvement to the algorithms we use for detecting duplicate listings. Because we aggregate from many sources, it often happens that we have the same property from mutiple partners. This is clearly not an optimal user experience.

Techncially detecting duplicates isn’t always trivial as the information available to us from different sources can be, well, different.

We’re pleased that we’ve been able to make good progress on this important part of relevancy. As with all aspects of improving quality, the work is never “done”. No doubt there are still the occasional dupes lurking out there. Please let us know when you spot them.

On a related note, a few months ago I dashed off a post about quality (it’s not the same as quantity) and why we believe it’s better to show our users fewer high quality listings than many bad listings. Our finetuning of deduplication is another step in that direction.

Finally, for our international fans, rest assured the same improvements have been rolled out across Nestoria in all the markets we’re active in.

Enjoy the weekend!