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How are Embeddings Affecting Traditional Text Search?

codycollier.com
submitted
a year ago
byjustadevtoprogramming

Summary

How are Embeddings Affecting Traditional Text Search? An informal explanation of lexical, semantic, and hybrid search for text documents. How are Embedings Affected Traditional Text search? An Informal explanation of Lexical, Semantic, and Hybrid Search for text Documents.

If you combine traditional lexical search with modern semantic search, you can better ensure search results will cover gaps. Vespa is a strong leader in this area while Lucene based engines such as Elastic and OpenSearch are close on their heels. Traditional search and BM25 aren't going anywhere.

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kaiserseahorse
a year ago
Vector databases have their cons but they really do help with finding relevant items.
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throwschen
a year ago
The hybrid approach is always best. You eliminate all the cons of each one without issue. It just happens to be complex enough that not everyone does it.
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justadevOP
a year ago
I implemented a version of this. It was a massive pain to get right but it's been fairly bulletproof since!