Why should a search product distinguish retrieval from answer generation?
Retrieval offers candidates that may contain relevant evidence; generation composes a response from available context. Treating a match as a verified answer can hide ambiguity or an unrelated result. A useful interface exposes the relevant fragment and its source so the reader can inspect what the system actually found.
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EmbeddingGemma 2 Wants Your Photos, Audio and Code in the Same Search SpaceGoogle’s multimodal embedding announcement points toward cross-media retrieval, where matching meaning matters more than generating an answer.
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