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Similarity Search Feature in Typesense

TLDR Arad inquired about "similarity search" feature in Typesense, Kishore Nallan clarified that the "vector search" can serve the purpose with provided examples and resources.

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Oct 09, 2023 (1 month ago)

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Arad

03:10 AM

Does Typesense have a "similarity search" type of feature? Many E-commerce sites for example have a "related products" section on every product page.
Is it possible to implement something like that with TypeSense? Where you basically give Typesense the ID of a specific document in a collection and it finds the N most similar documents.
lnx supports this, for instance.

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Kishore Nallan

03:11 AM

Yes this can be done through vector search. You can create an embedding from a set of fields in the collection which will capture the semantic meaning of the product. Then by doing a vector search you can get similar products.

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Kishore Nallan

03:12 AM

The "Find similar" link under each product here works that way: https://ecommerce-store.typesense.org/

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Kishore Nallan

03:13 AM

Arad

03:14 AM

Kishore Nallan Thank you!

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