Vertical Search
What Is Vertical Search? Vertical search focuses on a specific content type or category — images, video, news, shopping, jobs — rather than searching the entire web indiscriminately. Common Examples Google Images, Google Shopping, Google News, and YouTube search are all forms of vertical search, each indexing and ranking a specific type of content using […]
Voice Search
What Is Voice Search? Voice search lets users find information by speaking a query aloud instead of typing it, using assistants like Google Assistant, Siri, or Alexa to interpret and answer the request. How It Works Voice queries are typically longer and more conversational than typed searches (“what’s the best pizza place near me that’s […]
Vector Search
What Is Vector Search? Vector search finds relevant content by comparing its underlying meaning rather than matching exact words, using AI-generated numerical representations of text (called embeddings) that place similar concepts close together in mathematical space. How It Differs from Keyword Search Traditional keyword search matches the literal words in a query against the words […]