embedding
A numeric vector representing text, used to find passages similar in meaning rather than in wording.
What embedding does not show
Nothing about a page is retrievable by embedding if the page was never fetched in the first place.
Terms this definition uses
Definitions that name embedding
RDFa and Microdata · agentic knowledge graph · BM25 · dense retrieval · Dense vector · Cosine similarity
Related terms in Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
AEO · GEO · AI visibility score · share of voice · prompt set · brand mention · RAG · grounding · training data · chunking · context window · token · hallucination · refusal · AI Overview · answer engine · citation · retrieval · hallucinated attribution · Hybrid search · Re-ranking · Passage ranking · Query fan-out · Chunk boundary · BM25 · cross-encoder · AI Mode · information gain · dense retrieval
Questions about embedding
What is embedding?
A numeric vector representing text, used to find passages similar in meaning rather than in wording.
What does embedding not show or guarantee?
A numeric vector representing text, used to find passages similar in meaning rather than in wording. Nothing about a page is retrievable by embedding if the page was never fetched in the first place.
Which area of the glossary does embedding belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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