I thought text search was always the first thing you try, then fuzzy search, then you go for RAG

wongarsu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not like a simple embedding search takes that much longer to implement. Especially on short descriptions where you don't have to deal with chunking. And if you let an LLM write the code it's even less of a difference. Combine that with embedding search promising to solve all your search problems, and I understand why people often skip over full text search and go straight to embeddings

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ozim 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think Bitwarden implemented some vector search in their password search feature ... totally annoying it gives me back all kinds of stuff that I don't care.

I want fuzzy search like 95% of time and then I might consider having additional list of things that can be suggested by vector search.

	▲	gwerbin an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Bandcamp has had legendarily bad semantic search for as long as they've been around. It's often completely impossible to find an artist or album or song even when you type the exact name.
	▲	a1o 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A good UI could do these and also exact match, give some point system to the results, then order them and perhaps use a bold highlight to reflect what parts of the input query reflected in each result.