Airbnb Knowledge Graph Case Study

Airbnb optimizes the search of homestays using Knowledge Graphs. 🔥 Here's how ⬇️ Quick Context 🗓️ Discovery of what you 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 and 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 to know about a destination is crucial to a user for the overall trip experience, especially in edge cases where the user is traveling to a place they have never been to before. To provide relevant context, the need is for a way to represent relationships between 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 on Airbnb. Enter Knowledge Graphs… According to Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, the key to creating an 11-star experience is going beyond just providing a welcoming homestay on a trip. This leads us back to Product 101- Understanding the users and their needs. ⏮️ Knowledge Graphs optimize the search and discovery for Airbnb. Google has successfully used it to power its search engine and surface relevant context for particular queries. In today's edition of ProductX, let’s understand the science behind this! ✅ Why is a graph structure scalable? 📈 How is the “Graph” fundamentally structured? 🧐 What is the Airbnb Infrastructure used to implement this? 🏗️ Where can the use of knowledge graphs be visualized live? 📲 A deep dive down the rabbit hole, insights into the key systems design decisions, and what we can learn from the Airbnb Knowledge Graph case study have been covered in today's edition of ProductX. Link to the free read: https://bit.ly/productx-airbnb