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ASK LIKE A HUMAN: IMPLEMENTING SEMANTIC SEARCH ON STACK OVERFLOW

stackoverflow.blog4 min read

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This blog documents how Stack Overflow transitioned from traditional lexical search using matching keywords to semantic search that uses embeddings to understand queries as natural language questions. It describes the problems with lexical search that made the team transition to semantic search and the challenges with implementing semantic search, such as choosing the right tech stack and model.