How deeply does AI-Powered Search cover query signal?

Defines a generic event schema and demonstrates transformations for normalization, tokenization, frequency analysis, and edit-distance correction.

Query signal

As explained in AI-Powered Search

A query signal is a recorded search event representing a user's submitted query at a particular time.

A query signal records a user’s submitted search query at a particular time. It anchors the subsequent interaction sequence, including returned results, clicks, cart additions, and purchases. section 4.1.3

A generic signal record uses query_id, user, type, target, and signal_time. The query event stores the submitted keywords; separate result and interaction events retain a consistent, extensible structure while linking back to the originating query_id. section 4.1.3

Query signals support several search-quality workflows:

Normalize and deduplicate queries before analyzing user language. section 6.5.2
Tokenize queries, remove stop words and numbers, and count recurring terms. section 6.5.2
Extract domain-specific phrases and alternative labels for query interpretation. section 6.4.2
Learn spelling corrections by comparing infrequent variants with frequent, similarly spelled terms. section 6.5.2

A linked search journey

A user searches for “ipad,” receives doc1, doc2, and doc3, clicks doc1 and doc3, and adds doc3 to a cart. A later “ipad cover” query produces another linked sequence. Query signals identify both submitted queries, while query_id connects each result and interaction to its originating search. section 4.1.3

Table 4.1 Example signals format

query_id	user	type	target	signal_time
1	u123	query	ipad	2024-05-01-09:00:00
1	u123	results	doc1,doc2,doc3	2024-05-01-09:00:00
1	u123	click	doc1	2024-05-01-09:00:10
1	u123	click	doc3	2024-05-01-09:00:29
1	u123	add-to-cart	doc3	2024-05-01-09:03:40
2	u123	query	ipad cover	2024-05-01-09:04:00
2	u123	results	doc4,doc5	2024-05-01-09:04:00
2	u123	click	doc4	2024-05-01-09:04:40
2	u123	add-to-cart	doc4	2024-05-01-09:05:50
1	u123	purchase	doc3	2024-05-01-09:07:15
2	u123	purchase	doc4	2024-05-01-09:07:15

Use the signal table to inspect how query, results, click, cart, and purchase events are represented and timestamped. section 4.1.3

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