The ability to search the entire web in less than a second for whatever we fancy knowing is one of the greatest achievements of recent history. But how does it work? What are its building blocks? And, most importantly, … can we hack together our own version of it? The latter is important because search is inevitably personal: it is all about our focus, preferences, resources at our disposal and even emotions. Plus, it’s really cool!

In this three part series, I will:

• Pt 1. Provide a gentle introduction to Search using both Google and Elasticsearch as examples
• Pt 2. We will explain some **state-of-the-art NLP techniques, **compare results to traditional approaches and discuss pros and cons
• Pt 3. Provide a hacker’s guide to building your own search engine with Elasticsearch engine containing 1 million news headlines & employing state-of-the-art NLP for enhanced semantic searches…

#articial-intelligence #search #transformers #knowledge-graph #nlp