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		Google: Bert now used on almost every English query (searchengineland.com)
		2 points by mmq on Nov 24, 2020 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

zibbity-rw on Nov 24, 2020 [–]

Interesting! I wonder if there are unintended consequences here? Since BERT clusters words based on broader text examples/crawls, can this reduce search quality in niche topics or ones that use a lot of jargon?

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