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What are other good areas where semantic search can be useful? I've been toying with the idea for a while to play around and make such a webapp.

Some of the current ideas I had:

1. Online ads search for marketers: embed and index video + image ads, allow natural language search to find marketing inspiration. 2. Multi e-commerce platform search for shopping: find products across Sephora, zara, h&m, etc.

I don't know if either are good enough business problems worth solving tho.




3. Quick lookup into internal documents. Almost any company needs it. Navigating file-system like hierarchy is slow and limited. That was old way.

4. Quick lookup into the code to find relevant parts even when the wording in comments is different.


For 4, it would be neat to first pass each block of code (function or class or whatever) through an llm to extract meaning, and then embed some combination of llm parsed meaning, docstring and comments, and function name. Then do semantic search against that.

That way you’d cover what the human thinks the block is for vs what an LLM “thinks” it’s for. Should cover some amount of drift in names and comments that any codebase sees.


Please stop making ad tech better. Someone else might, but you don’t have to.




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