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> Its efficacy is also strongly dependent on understanding that it's a keyword search engine with no semantic understanding. Good. I love keyword search. "Sem
by someguy5281 3y ago
> Its efficacy is also strongly dependent on understanding that it's a keyword search engine with no semantic understanding.
Good. I love keyword search.
"Semantic understanding" can be so biased and ... just shady sometimes.
- scarface_74 3y agoKeyword search leads to things like every website would put meaningless words in the meta section of their website so it would be picked by Altavista
- chupapimunyenyo 3y agoNo, if it's done right. Source: I made my own search engine
- marginalia_nu 3y agoIt's tricky though. I think a lot of people think they want raw keyword search, but what they really want is a search experience that makes intuitive sense. If you lean too much into embeddings and so on, it's easy to get errors that don't make sense to a human being. It's extremely frustrating when you experience "I typed X, why am I getting results about Y?!" That said, I think there's a sweet spot with some magic, where it genuinely just makes search better. But it's like perfume, if it's immediately obvious that it's there, it's probably a fair bit too much.