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Meesho develops regional e-commerce functions

Published
Jul 5, 2022

As e-commerce business Meesho continues to expand its online platform, the business is harnessing artificial intelligence to tailor its offering to shoppers across the country with personalised language and search features. 

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“In India, a lot of people know how to write English, but they often make spelling mistakes,” Meesho’s CEO Vidit Aatrey told ET Digital. “For example, sellers will write oxidised as a-u-x-i-d-i-z-e-d, because that’s how they spell it. We struggled with this a lot.” The business has harnessed machine learning to predict how people will spell keywords and enable them to find what they are looking for in a way that is easy and accessible to them. 

As Meesho has a large user base in non-metro areas, regional language features are especially important. The business aims to set itself apart from other, foreign-owned e-commerce platforms by following a hyper-local approach to the seller experience it offers. 

“Even if the language is the same in a few cities, the dialect changes,” said Aatrey. “Sellers sourcing a product use different words for the same product, and it is different when they write something. So we have over time used a lot of technology, especially machine learning and AI, to really personalise the experience for every user.” 

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