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The Age of Conversational Recommendation: Big players like Airbnb, Google, and Rightmove are taking steps to make search more iterative and less rigid for users

Background News
Among Airbnb’s “100+ innovations and upgrades” released last month was a number of extensions to its accommodation search mechanism. These are designed to provide r ...

Buyers expect more from the online home-searching experience

Artificial Intelligence Background News
Online property search platforms are now the first place that most of us turn to when we are looking for a new home. Yet the vast number of listings provided by these pla ...

In conversation with Prof. Barry Smyth

Artificial Intelligence Background News
“It’s been the first time in a long time that I’ve seen a startup put together those solutions in the right way – making it simple, but very effec ...

Study: Traverz drives stronger ecommerce and marketplace performance

Background News
A new user experience study by Biglight reveals that the Traverz Conversational Recommendation approach to product search significantly outperforms the standard filter-ba ...

Barry Smyth, esteemed professor and expert in Conversational Recommender Systems, joins the Traverz Advisory Board

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“The technology that Traverz has developed is an important step towards commoditising conversational AI and allowing e-commerce players, big and small, to take personal ...

Traverz wins 2nd place in 2020 >>venture>> Startup competition

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We’re incredibly excited to have been awarded 2nd place position in this years’ >>venture>> competition, which celebrates startups across Switzerland. Wit ...

Traverz – one of the 50 most innovative startups in Switzerland

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Venture, the leading competition for up-and-coming entrepreneurs in Switzerland, was founded in 1997 as a joint initiative of ETH Zürich, McKinsey & Company, Knecht ...