BM-Five
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2025 by Jo Kristian Bergum · across every show →
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Apr 19, 2025 positive
Bergum: Build RAG with BM25 first, hybrid search second, re-ranking third
“I think actually that a very strong baseline is the classical BM-Five like algorithm that's been around for 30 years, right? It's keyword matching, but it offers a very useful baseline for a lot of different search use cases because it gives you that baseline,…”
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
McCloy: AI search platforms still rely on traditional search algorithms under the hood
“Most of the search that's in AI search is still traditional search, right? There's an AI model in front of it, but you're still using your sort of traditional, like, you know, text-based, like, BM-Five or TF-IDF or PageRank or what have you search algorithms u…”