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# [Imagine if Google stopped looking for words and started understanding your thoughts. That's what embeddings do.](https://vectorverse.hashnode.dev/imagine-if-google-stopped-looking-for-words-and-started-understanding-your-thoughts-that-s-what-embeddings-do?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

For decades, databases relied on indexes to find information quickly. Want to find every customer named “John”? The database checks an index. Need all orders placed in March? Another index. Indexes ma

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