Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a...
by gcr on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:23AM
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Google was not using deep learning for search in 2011. Deep learning as a concept didn't really take off until AlexNet in 2012 anyway.
Various ML "learn-to-rank" tooling was in use at Google for a while, but incorporating document embedding vectors w/ ANN search into the ranking function probably happened over the course of 2018-2021 [1], I think. Generative AI only started appearing in ordinary search results in 2024.
Various ML "learn-to-rank" tooling was in use at Google for a while, but incorporating document embedding vectors w/ ANN search into the ranking function probably happened over the course of 2018-2021 [1], I think. Generative AI only started appearing in ordinary search results in 2024.
1: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...