Paul Mello is the Director of Product Management at Vegas.com and discusses how they implemented Fusion to improve their mobile site search experience. Users were frustrated when trying to find specific shows, hotels, and tours on mobile. Vegas.com implemented Fusion to make search easy, intuitive, and factor in business rules and new products. Six weeks later, Fusion provided a solution that was fast, learned from users, and made customers happy. Two years later, Vegas.com continues using Fusion to replace desktop search and query their mobile landing pages and common product searches.
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About me
Paul Mello
Director of Product Management, Special Projects
Started at Vegas.com in 1999
I ride my bike to work; 14 miles round trip,
every day; even in the summer
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About Vegas.com
Publicly-traded B-to-C travel experience company
Vegas-centric
We sell shows, hotels, tours, etc.
~ 200 or us live, work, eat and breathe Vegas
We compete for marketshare with some of the
biggest companies in the world
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We had a problem to solve
Mobile became a focus for us in 2014
Though we saw huge conversion gains with our
re-released m.Site in late 2014…
We also witnessed plenty of frustrated users
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We had a problem to solve
...Specifically users who knew or had a pretty
good idea of what they wanted
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The solution we needed
We knew we needed a solution that made finding specific
shows, hotels and tours…
• Easy & Intuitive
But results also needed to consider…
• Business rules & New products
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We already had a full-text search product
… which we were using on desktop
… but other than indexing our site, it did none of the things
we needed it to do
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And 6 weeks later
We had our solution, using Fusion
And it’s really fast…
It learns…
It factors in our business rules
<-- And it makes this guy super happy
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And, it helps the bottom line
Site search users are a small
but important audience for us
Less than 4% of our users
interact with site search
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And, it helps the bottom line
User who interact
with site search
account for 8-13%
of all transactions
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And 2 years later...
We keep finding more reasons
to use Fusion, including…
• Replacing our legacy desktop
site search
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And 2 years later...
We keep finding more reasons
to use Fusion, including…
• Querying Fusion index for
our new REACT mobile
landing pages
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And 2 years later...
We keep finding more reasons
to use Fusion, including…
• Querying Fusion index for
common product search
results queries