Ask HN: Best resources to learn about Search and Information retrieval
Hello,
At work I operate a search platform, which led me to learn about search engines in general and how they works.
The deeper I dive in the rabbit hole of information retrieval technologies, the wider it seems to me.
I want to proactively learn about it, which I plan to do with the following books:
- Relevant Search
- AI-Powered Search
Should these be enough to acquire a deep understanding of the domain ?
Do you have alternative or additional resources to suggest ?
Thanks!
Series of blog posts on search and information retrieval
https://medium.com/@dtunkelang
What AI Engineers Should Know about Search from Doug Turnbull
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/06/25/what-ai-engineers-n...
Videos from Berlin Buzzwords
https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSchwarzUG/videos
Videos MIx-Camp E-commerce Search
https://www.youtube.com/@mix-campe-commercesearch2961/videos
Videos from OpenSource Connections / Haystack
https://www.youtube.com/@OpenSourceConnections/videos
I’ve found this page[0] to be a great starting point for traditional search.
Many of the patterns in traditional search can (and should!) be applied to “AI” search, which is really just indexing things in vector space.
tl;dr — What you put in is what you get out, there’s no silver bullet.
[0] https://project-a.github.io/on-site-search-design-patterns-f...
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