Search results for: "search meaning vectors" Found 5 relevant passage(s) from hoeijmakers.net ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [1] "Back in the Search Arena, This Time With Vectors" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/back-in-the-search-arena-this-time-with-vectors/ Published: 2026-05-26 Relevance score: 0.788 Three years ago I wrote about site search as if it were a solved problem. Collect, index, serve. It made sense at the time. Ghost had a search widget, it worked well enough, and I moved on.What I did not register then was the ceiling. Ghost's built-in search indexes titles and excerpts only. The body of every post, where the actual thinking lives, stays invisible. For a site with a handful of posts, that is fine. For a site with six hundred, it means your own archive is mostly unsearchable.I knew this. I just never had the right combination of tools, time, and nerve to do something about it.The returnThis spring, that changed. I came back to the problem with Claude Code, which turned out to be the missing piece. Not because it writes perfect code, but because it removes the activation energy. The setup that used to require a developer and a week of back-and-forth now takes an afternoon and a working session.I integrated Algolia. Fast, full-text, generous free tier. It indexes everythin ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [2] "Scaling RAG Applications with Weaviate." URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/scaling-rag-applications-with-weaviate/ Tags: AI in Practice Published: 2025-04-11 Relevance score: 0.735 In my ongoing exploration of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) , I recently took a deep dive into Weaviate — a Dutch company making waves with its open-source vector database. If you're working on AI agents, knowledge bots, or anything that relies on semantically rich information retrieval, understanding how a vector database like Weaviate fits into the architecture is not optional. It's essential. Why Weaviate caught my attention Several of my recent projects, especially in healthcare and multilingual knowledge sharing , have reached the limits of what can be done with off-the-shelf tools. I needed something that could scale. A friend with a deep tech background pointed me to Weaviate —a vector-first database designed for AI-native applications. After attending two demos and speaking directly with one of their experts, it started to make sense. What makes a vector database different? Traditional databases store and retrieve exact matches: strings, numbers, Booleans. Vector database ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [3] "Site Search explained" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/website-search/ Published: 2021-10-02 Relevance score: 0.685 The third step is to offer a search box and page to do the actual searching. In the simplest variant, it is just entering search words and see a list of results. But you can go much further, and there are a number of possibilities to improve the experience of searching. You might want to have filters or facets, autosuggest, spelling corrections, highlight of results in context, recommendations or push certain results you deem more valuable. Also, here Natural Language Processing (NLP) might come in, and the person searching can type in daily language to search. Basically this third step is the goal and if the first two are done properly the visitor should be able to get what is necessary and maybe even be inspired to look further because of recommendations. It depends on how well the interactions are shown and working, if there is an enticing User Experience. The site search on this website In the past, I mostly worked with Google Search Application and a solution based on Elasticsearc ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [4] "Search in the Age of AI" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/search-in-the-age-of-ai/ Tags: AI Strategy Published: 2025-04-21 Relevance score: 0.676 rewires everything: The model retrieves chunks of relevant information from a database It blends them with your query It generates a contextual response This doesn’t replace search, it wraps around it . Suddenly, the search engine isn’t just a finder. It’s a participant. Instead of clicking through results, you’re building understanding together. Project: AI Chatbot for RSV Awareness through Web and WhatsApp Discover how I partnered with ReSViNET to build an AI-powered chatbot that provides global RSV education, available via web and WhatsApp. Rob Hoeijmakers Rob Hoeijmakers 3. Search Expands: From Text to Everything The old model of search worked best in one mode: text in, text out. But human understanding isn’t limited to words. We process images, sound, video, structure. And now, search is catching up. AI has cracked open the door to multimodal search , the ability to look inside other forms of content. Not just text, but timelines. Not just titles, but tone. Tools like Whisper turn ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [5] "How chatbots understand us" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/how-chatbots-understand-human-language/ Tags: AI in Practice Published: 2023-03-15 Relevance score: 0.665 : the user seeks the opinion of others on a particular topic or problem. Confirmation : the user seeks confirmation or verification of something he thinks is true. These are just a few examples of the different intentions that may underlie a user's query. As an AI language model, I have been trained to recognise and respond to a wide range of query intentions, and I am constantly learning and adapting to better understand the nuances of human language. Entities, building blocks for intents Entities are another important concept in natural language processing that is closely related to intents. While intents represent the general purpose of a user's input, entities refer to specific pieces of information within the input that are relevant to the intent . Entities are used to extract important information from the user's input to provide a more accurate and useful answer. For example, if the intent is to book a flight, the relevant entities might be the cities of departure and arrival, t