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Query String with OR Functionality in Typesense

TLDR Michael asked how to build a query string with "OR" functionality, but Kishore Nallan informed them it is not currently supported. However, a new version of Typesense with better similarity operations is coming in a week or two.

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May 22, 2023 (4 months ago)
Michael
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Michael
11:13 AM
Apologies for the basic question, but currently trying to build a query string that matches any of the words in a title - e.g. if the title is 'Big Red Volkswagen Golf' it should search for big OR red OR volkswagen OR golf. I've tried q=:[big,red,volkswagen,golf] and q=Big Red Volkswagen Golf, but get zero results. If I change the query to q=:big (or any of the other words on their own) I start seeing results. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any advice appreciated.
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
11:14 AM
๐Ÿ‘‹ we don't support OR or other operators in the query string. So it's not possible to do what you want. However, we do have an open feature request for this.
Michael
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Michael
11:19 AM
ok. good to know. i'm trying to build similar ads functionality without having to learn about LLM and vectors ๐Ÿ˜†. might just group by category for now.
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
11:20 AM
In the next version of Typesense you can embed one or more fields without knowing anything about vectors ๐Ÿ™‚ We will take care of the vectorization fully.
11:21
Kishore Nallan
11:21 AM
IMO, it's much simpler to do similarity operations using vectors.
Michael
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Michael
11:23 AM
nice. is there a timeline in place for that release?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
11:24 AM
I'll be happy to share a rc build with you in a day or so. We've already been testing it.
11:24
Kishore Nallan
11:24 AM
About a week or two away from releasing the next version. Almost on code freeze now.
Michael
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Michael
11:27 AM
Amazing. Love how active the development is in this project.

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