Glossary term
Glossary term
Memory and Retrieval
Semantic search goes beyond keywords to understand the meaning behind a query. It helps AI systems find relevant content, even if the wording does not exactly match, by looking at intent, context, and relationships between concepts.
Google Search has used neural semantic understanding via BERT and MUM since 2019.
Algolia AI Search, Elastic Semantic Search, and OpenSearch Neural Search add semantic ranking to enterprise search.
Pinecone, Weaviate, and Qdrant are vector databases built for semantic search.