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title: "Semantic Search"
description: "Search that matches by meaning rather than keyword."
topic: "Search Technology"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/glossary/search-technology/semantic-search"
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# Semantic Search

Search that matches by meaning rather than keyword.

Powered by embeddings. Rewards semantically rich content over keyword-stuffed pages. The retrieval step in most RAG pipelines is semantic search.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/glossary/search-technology/semantic-search
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