TinkerNo index yet: a clerk and a stack of pages.
Chapter 1 of 7
Reading every page
Before its AI assistant, Larkspur’s staff searched the company’s documents with a plain search box. A warehouse lead types “forklift”.
This chapter: How does a search box with no index find the pages?
About this chapter
You will learn
- Documents are cut into pages
- A scan reads every page
- Why its cost grows with the pages
Words you’ll meet
- Page
- One short, fixed-length piece of a document: what the search box finds and ranks.
- Scan
- Reading every page, one by one, to find the ones with the search’s words.
Step 1 of 4
Larkspur’s 47 documents are cut into 257 of 32 words. With no index, a reads them one by one.
Search for “forklift”.