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Retrieval and RAG

What is Vector database?

A system that stores and searches vectors by similarity

A vector database indexes embeddings to retrieve items close to a query. It is common in enterprise RAG systems and semantic search.

What Vector database means in GEO

In a RAG pipeline, publishing is not enough. A page must be discoverable, enter the candidate set and survive reranking.

Why it matters

When building your own RAG, preserve source, date, language and URL metadata with every passage.

What to check in practice

Identify the stage where the source disappears: access, initial retrieval, reranking, generator context or citation selection.

How it connects to other concepts

Vector database belongs to retrieval and rag. It is best analyzed alongside related terms because AI visibility depends on several stages and signals rather than one isolated optimization.

Common mistake

Blaming final copy when the document never reached the model that writes the answer.

Turn these concepts into metrics

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