Amazon OpenSearch Service search enhancements: 2023 roundup
Big Data Blog
This article summarizes the new search enhancements introduced in Amazon OpenSearch Service in 2023, which focused on improving search relevance and enabling the use of AI/ML technologies to augment search experiences.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Background on lexical and semantic search
- Fundamental enhancements like the Compare Search Results tool, search pipelines, byte-sized vectors, and new language analyzers
- Ease-of-use improvements like neural search, AI/ML connectors, and hybrid search with score combination
- New search methods like neural sparse retrieval and multi-modal search
- Conclusion highlighting OpenSearch Service's efforts to provide the latest search technologies
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