I wish vector search as a thing would die, or return to the back seat and let traditional indexing things have the first shot.
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I wish vector search as a thing would die, or return to the back seat and let traditional indexing things have the first shot.
"oh but vector search is great because it clusters similar concepts!"
Yeah you know what concepts are similar? Different names, different model numbers for things, things that are related to _but different from_ what I searched for.
If I search for "morgan", a result for "morton" is a bad result. If I search for "atari ste", a result for the atari falcon is bad.
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Dave Andersonreplied to Dave Anderson last edited by [email protected]
I swear half the degradation in websearch these last few years isn't due to content farming and SEO spam, it's purely that search engines collectively decided that people were searching with the wrong words, and that giving them results that are loosely about the broad chunk of concept space near the thing they asked about is better than giving them what they fucking asked for.
Sure, tell me about related concepts. Separately from the results for the sodding word I searched for.
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Dave Andersonreplied to Dave Anderson last edited by [email protected]
Starting to see boosts that escape my normal bubble, so let me tap the sign again. These posts are an expression of frustration as I tried to find information that definitely exists but is hidden by damaged information retrieval systems. It is not an invitation to debate the issue.
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@danderson not here to start a debate, but now’s as good time as any to say you’re really one of my favorite follows here on mastodon!
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@danderson this is amazing.
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@danderson I've been feeling this strongly for years now. Just searched for a term "A" I didn't know much about. Got many results about another term "B". Including one whose summary said it was a discussion of the many types of "B". Great, looks like "A" is a type of "B" and the web page will explain how? Nope, after reading the entire page, no mention of "A" at all. The algorithm found some relationship between "A" and "B", but it can't direct me to anything about "A" even when asked directly.
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Chris P. :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣replied to Dave Anderson last edited by
@danderson today, I searched for "hellene"
My search was off by one letter from one of the biggest events going on in and around where I live.
Here's a screenshot of the result:
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@danderson I had this earlier on Amazon. The exact (slightly obscure) thing I typed in was 4 pages in.
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My name is Gordo (not really)replied to Dave Anderson last edited by
@danderson Might have something to do with that time Google's Head of Ads more or less staged a coup, eventually replacing the former Head of Search, who'd been with Google since 1999, and refused to make search worse in service of the Ads team making the proverbial line go up.
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