Dustin Coates is the Voice Search Go-to-market Lead at Algolia, a Search-as-a-Service provider based in Paris, France. Algolia processes up to 4 billion searches a month for over 6500 client products, including big names such as Twitch and NPR.

In our conversation, you'll learn all about the 4 pillars of a search system; the indexing of data, relevance configuration, search queries, and the display of results. We discuss the nuances of voice search, context dependent searches, and the differences between searching on mobile vs a smart speaker. We also cover the challenges of talking to websites, discovery vs search, and much more.

Dustin shares his advice for voice search developers, including how to integrate voice search into your apps, and the most useful tools and technical resources. Dustin's deep technical experience really shines though in this interview, as one of the few true voice search experts.

Links from the show: 

• Dustin's book: http://bit.ly/2VZ2U9A
• Dustin's dabble lab tutorial: http://bit.ly/2W3kRnq
• VScode Alexa plugin: http://bit.ly/2W6K9Bi

Sponsors:

• Dashbot Super Bot Conference 2019: https://sb2019.dashbot.io, 25% group discount code: voicetech 
• Voice-Connected Home 2019: https://bit.ly/2IZuVwc, 20% discount code: VoiceTech 
• Dabble Lab: https://youtube.com/dabblelab
• Manning books: https://www.manning.com 40% off all books code: podvoicetech19 

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