Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Now that we’ve seen the limits of traditional keyword search, let’s look at how vector search changes the game.

In this part, we explore the foundation of semantic retrieval — the k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) algorithm.

In this section, we cover:
- How queries and documents are embedded as vectors in multi-dimensional space
- What it means to measure similarity through distance
- How k-NN helps find the most relevant documents to a query
- The difference between exact keyword matches and semantic similarity
- Why vector search captures meaning instead of just matching words

At its core, vector search is math — but it’s math that understands meaning.

By measuring distance between embeddings, we move beyond keywords and into semantic understanding — the foundation of modern search.

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