TinkerThe search waits on the desk.
Chapter 6 of 7
Words versus meaning
Cleaning helped, but a new hire searches “logging in without a password” and gets nothing useful back.
This chapter: When do keywords miss, and when do they beat meaning?
About this chapter
You will learn
- Keywords match words, not meaning
- Embeddings match meaning, not exact codes
- A blend keeps both
Words you’ll meet
- Embedding
- A list of numbers standing for a text’s meaning: texts that mean alike get close lists.
- Hybrid search
- Ranking pages by keywords and by meaning together.
Step 1 of 6
Keywords find pages that share the search’s words. The page that answers this one says “single sign-on”.
Search by keywords.