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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by rightbyte on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:24PM (#45761795)
> they had the llm concept first and couldnt really materialize it into anything commercial until chat gpt came around.

Wasn't the "fuzzy search" that ignored keywords run by some sort of LLM? I.e. "lady gaga age" would return documents with "lady gaga old" etc.

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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:19PM (#45762492)
> Wasn't the "fuzzy search" that ignored keywords run by some sort of LLM? I.e. "lady gaga age" would return documents with "lady gaga old" etc.

That was embeddings AFAIK, so yeah, similar technology to LLMs.

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