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Excelling your commerce store with a smart shopping assistant using Related Prompts
External ReferenceBy Ana Sánchez
Transform your commerce store with reductive questions—AI-powered prompts that refine shopper intent, personalize journeys, and boost conversion rates.
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Improving Related Prompts to enhance GenAI governance in retail
External ReferenceBy Jorge Leal
Discover how Empathy Platform is revolutionizing e-commerce search with GenAI-powered Related Prompts, offering smarter, personalized shopper experiences.
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Innovating Commerce Search with a Generative AI Healthy Eating Assistant
External ReferenceBy Jorge Leal
Discover how Empathy’s Healthy Eating with Ocado AI assistant blends GenAI with commerce search to deliver personalized, privacy-first, and intuitive shopping experiences—pioneering open innovation in retail.
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Bridging generative AI with factual accuracy
External ReferenceBy Ana Sánchez
Discover how Empathy.ai bridges generative AI with factual accuracy through Fully Formatted Facts (FFF) and advanced RAG frameworks—minimizing hallucinations and redefining trust in AI-powered search.
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Enhancing your commerce search experience using conversational queries with Related Prompts
External ReferenceBy Ana Sánchez
Enhance product discovery with Empathy Platform’s new Related Prompts—synthetically generated, conversational queries that guide shoppers effortlessly, eliminate cold start issues, and prioritize privacy.
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How DeepSeek R1 and Empathy pioneer the next era of intelligent search on self-hosted GPU clusters
External ReferenceBy Jorge Leal
Discover how Empathy Platform and DeepSeek R1 are redefining intelligent, privacy-first search with AI-powered features like Related Prompts and the EmpathyAI Router—driving innovation on self-hosted GPU clusters without relying on OpenAI.
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Redefining Technical Documentation at Empathy.co: A Three-Year Journey of Disruption
External ReferenceBy Luisa Cortón
The story of how we said goodbye to static, lifeless, highly technical guides and welcomed a new era of technical documentation that is enjoyable and engaging.
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What You See Is What You Trust
Blog PostUnderstand your customers’ needs, straight from your own ecommerce store, using new Playboard tools to boost trust.
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Detecting Biases in AI Search Interactions
External ReferenceBy Alvaro Ibañez
With the implosion in popularity of generative AI, the public is more conscious of how developers’ biases impact AI judgements.
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Explainability and Understanding in e-commerce: The Challenge of XAI
External ReferenceBy Álvaro Panizo
AI is inherently biased, which is why explainability and control are necessary to reduce the impact of this problem. We need solutions that are highly transparent and multivariate testing that can be executed out-of-the-box.
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Why Chrome’s cookie phase-out won’t affect Empathy.co customers
Blog PostWith Empathy.co you get a secure, personalised shopping journey that doesn’t rely on third-party cookies, meaning you’re already ahead of Chrome's cookie phase-out.
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Pioneering a way to measure trust in online retail
Blog PostToday’s consumers place a huge amount of trust in online retailers. In return, they expect a safe, secure and non-intrusive shopping experience. Heres's how that can be guaranteed.
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Kroger + Empathy.co: AI Search Applied to Grocery
Blog PostNearly five years ago, pre-pandemic, and before online shopping became the norm, Empathy.co and The Kroger Co began collaborating. In need of an enhanced Search & Discovery experience across their...
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Using Search and Discovery to Generate Exponential Ecommerce Growth
Blog PostFrom predictive layers offering real-time, customised recommendations, to a privacy-first approach, PDPAOLA is redefining what it means to shop for jewellery online.
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Explainable AI in Retail: Delivering Trust, Transparency and Personalisation
Blog PostFor retailers, explainable AI leads to better decision making and understanding. For shoppers, it builds greater trust and improves the shopping experience.
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How Retailers Can Optimise Search Results to Reduce Bounce Rates
Blog PostUnderstanding and harnessing the power of search results can enhance engagement, increase conversions, and ultimately drive growth in revenue.
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Redefining Privacy: How Retailers Can Learn from the Failures of Big Tech & Protect Gen Z data
Blog PostDiscover Gen Z's online expectations when it comes to privacy and learn how retailers can adopt ethical data strategies for an improved shopping journey.
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Semantic Models in Vector Search
Blog PostDiscover how Vector Search combines with semantics, NLP & NLG to deliver privacy and consent integrity paired with faster, more relevant results.
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The Path to Empathy: A Commerce Search Success Story
Blog PostBSH, Europe’s leading appliance manufacturer, teamed up with Empathy.co to enhance the search journey for customers, resulting in significant improvements in discovery and engagement. The collaboration has led to a +13% increase in search sessions, an +11% boost in click-through rates, increased findability, and a +44% rise in add to carts, underlining the value of a personalised, empathy-driven shopping experience.
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Master the art of summer sales: 7 strategies for retailers in 2023
Blog PostSeize the summer sales season with these 7 strategies. Outshine your competition and delight your shoppers.
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Revolutionising content discovery with Holons Search
Blog PostSee how Empathy.co is reimagining search with the power of Holons, creating a new, more intuitive way of discovering and interacting with content.
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In the News: Empathy.co launches Open Innovation to build new innovation-led ideas for the eCommerce sector
AnnouncementAt a time when technology is thrown into the world and hoped to become right, elevating values and responsibility becomes paramount. May we present to you, Open Innovation. Last week...
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What Does Ethical Personalisation in Retail Mean?
Blog PostIn today’s fiercely competitive retail landscape, successful online retailers understand the power of creating personalised experiences to foster a deep connection with their brands. Ethical personalisation has a pivotal role...
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Understanding Vectors and Semantics
Blog PostWhen it comes to commerce search, helping shoppers find what they are looking for efficiently and effectively is crucial for a successful shopping experience. Limiting search results to keyword matches...
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5 Top Tips for Driving eCommerce Revenue Growth
Blog PostHow can you build customer trust through ethical personalisation, profiling, explainability, and control? Connecting your catalogue to your brand values and creating private features allows you to differentiate yourself from...
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Improving the Explainability of Personalisation
Blog PostPersonalisation is failing. The cause is clear: customers do not fully understand the personalisation they're faced with. Here's where explainability comes into play. Giving customers control and understanding of their shopping experience.
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What APIs can do for your ecommerce business
Blog PostDiscover everything you need to know about APIs to build and scale your online store. Find the best APIs for your business, such as search and payment solutions.
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Creative Genius Unlocked: 8 Tips to Enhance your Creative Flow
Blog PostHave you ever felt stuck in a never-ending cycle of creative block? Lost and unmotivated to tackle creative challenges you know you're more than capable of facing can't move a muscle. Here are 8 tips to help you enhance your creative flow and unlock your inner creative genius.
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Autumn Release Notes: Q4 2022
AnnouncementThe quarter is over and so is 2022, so it’s time for a look back at what Autumn brought to Empathy Platform.
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How to really protect privacy while creating a personalised shopping experience
Blog PostMiscommunications happen all the time, all over the world, no matter what language you speak or who you’re speaking to. But when it comes to protecting consumer privacy and personal...
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5 respectful ways to get to know your customer better
Blog PostUnderstanding your customers is essential to success. Knowing what they need, what they like, and how they interact with your brand can help you create better products and drive sales. ...
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How we build the Augmented Society
Blog PostIt's time for stores to reclaim their local connections to customers. Privacy Advocate Pieter Vegt explores how we make this possible with a new model, the Augmented Society.
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Privacy as a Fundamental Right
Blog PostJoin us in our PrivacyBasics series to learn why privacy became a Human Right after World War II
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Scrum: let’s stop talking about the framework and start talking about the mindset
External ReferenceBy John Cifuentes
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How our wish for convenience in commerce backfired
Blog PostIn today's worldwide market, local shops now have to compete on global platforms to get local customers. Sound weird? Privacy Advocate Pieter Vegt thinks so too. Learn how our wish for convenience in commerce backfired in his Augmented Society series.
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What are privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs)?
Blog PostPrivacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) are a broad category of systems, processes and techniques that minimise personal data use to maximise data security. When used ethically, they can provide businesses with the tools to navigate the fast-evolving tech landscape and meet heightened consumer expectations around privacy.
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How the online shop became a vending machine
Blog PostIn the race for efficient, optimised online shopping, the ecommerce experience is often reduced to a vending machine. See, click and buy. Privacy Advocate Pieter Vegt explains how we got here and why that’s not working for shoppers in the first of three-part blog series.
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Stronger together: How Empathy fosters diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace
AnnouncementTo make our commitment to nurturing talent and equal opportunities in the workforce official, we’ve signed the Women in MACH Manifesto, a new initiative supporting women in tech and leadership....
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Ethical Personalisation: 4 Use Cases for Privacy Enhancing Technologies
External ReferenceBy Borja Santaolalla
Most retailers' algorithms for search & product recommendations don't take the customer's voice into account. Here's how PETs change that.
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Transform Black Friday to Connect with Shoppers and Build Brand Trust
Blog PostBlack Friday offers a unique opportunity to catch new customers’ interest and build your brand’s digital trust. But how do you make sure you can guarantee a joyful shopping experience for your users? Discover 9 tips to prep your shop and make sure it exceeds shoppers’ expectations.