At work I operate a search platform, which led me to learn about search engines in general and how they works.
The deeper I dive in the rabbit hole of information retrieval technologies, the wider it seems to me.
I want to proactively learn about it, which I plan to do with the following books:
- Relevant Search
- AI-Powered Search
Should these be enough to acquire a deep understanding of the domain ?
Do you have alternative or additional resources to suggest ?
Thanks!
https://medium.com/@dtunkelang
What AI Engineers Should Know about Search from Doug Turnbull
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/06/25/what-ai-engineers-n...
Videos from Berlin Buzzwords
https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSchwarzUG/videos
Videos MIx-Camp E-commerce Search
https://www.youtube.com/@mix-campe-commercesearch2961/videos
Videos from OpenSource Connections / Haystack
https://www.youtube.com/@OpenSourceConnections/videos
Many of the patterns in traditional search can (and should!) be applied to “AI” search, which is really just indexing things in vector space.
tl;dr — What you put in is what you get out, there’s no silver bullet.
[0] https://project-a.github.io/on-site-search-design-patterns-f...