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I had a discussion at work today about completely replacing the old search engine with vector embeddings because they work so well. I think google needs to be

I had a discussion at work today about completely replacing the old search engine with vector embeddings because they work so well. I think google needs to be very afraid in the coming few years because this use of AI is relatively cheap to run, simple to deploy and the models are small enough that you can build one customized based on your personal ranking of several thousand pieces of text.

temp20240604 2y ago
Why does Google need to be afraid? They index the entire web!
infecto 2y ago
1) They work really well but not in all the cases and most likely the better approach is some augment between the two. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch already include hybrid approaches. 2) The moat is having a snapshot of the web and being able to search through it efficiently.