Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval

embedding

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.

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Answer engines and retrieval

How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.

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