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		jvia 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch... A vector-only search engine will fail for a lot of common use cases where the keywords do matter. I tried searching for `garbanzo bean stew` and got totally irrelevant bean recipes.

ospider 3 months ago | [–]

Yes, indeed. I just tried search "Apple", and apple.com is not on the first page.

osigurdson 3 months ago | | [–]

Agree. For best results both lexical and vector search results should be fed into a reranker. Slow and expensive but high quality.

cyanydeez 3 months ago | [–]

What if you build a graph engine then encode those edges into its own embedding space?

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