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Tokens and Millicents – technical challenges in launching Indeed around the world

This talk was held on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 7:00pm

Engineering a product to serve jobseekers around the world requires solving a diverse set of technical challenges. In this talk, we delved deeper into some of those technical challenges we addressed to make our product succeed internationally. We described how language detection, text segmentation and stemming helped improve the relevance of our search results. We shared how we’ve had to evolve our sponsored auction and billing systems to handle multiple currencies.