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Ask HN: Best resources to learn about Search and Information retrieval

20 pointsby Heloseaa10 months ago
Hello,<p>At work I operate a search platform, which led me to learn about search engines in general and how they works.<p>The deeper I dive in the rabbit hole of information retrieval technologies, the wider it seems to me.<p>I want to proactively learn about it, which I plan to do with the following books:<p>- Relevant Search<p>- AI-Powered Search<p>Should these be enough to acquire a deep understanding of the domain ?<p>Do you have alternative or additional resources to suggest ?<p>Thanks!

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wolfgarbe10 months ago
Series of blog posts on search and information retrieval<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@dtunkelang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@dtunkelang</a><p>What AI Engineers Should Know about Search from Doug Turnbull<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwaredoug.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;what-ai-engineers-need-to-know-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwaredoug.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;what-ai-engineers-n...</a><p>Videos from Berlin Buzzwords<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@PlainSchwarzUG&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@PlainSchwarzUG&#x2F;videos</a><p>Videos MIx-Camp E-commerce Search<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@mix-campe-commercesearch2961&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@mix-campe-commercesearch2961&#x2F;videos</a><p>Videos from OpenSource Connections &#x2F; Haystack<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@OpenSourceConnections&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@OpenSourceConnections&#x2F;videos</a>
jumploops10 months ago
I’ve found this page[0] to be a great starting point for traditional search.<p>Many of the patterns in traditional search can (and should!) be applied to “AI” search, which is really just indexing things in vector space.<p>tl;dr — What you put in is what you get out, there’s no silver bullet.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;project-a.github.io&#x2F;on-site-search-design-patterns-for-e-commerce&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;project-a.github.io&#x2F;on-site-search-design-patterns-f...</a>