What is Similarity Search

Isabel Wilkerson’s book ‘Caste’ examines similarities between caste in India and race in America: The book is an opportunity for upper-caste Indians to learn from the recent soul-searching over racial legacies in America https://scroll.in/article/972167/isabel-wilkersons-book-caste-examines-similarities-between-caste-in-india-and-race-in-america 4 comments 5/9/2020 india

Find original file for a post-processed photo (visually similar image search) https://github.com/TechyNilesh/DeepImageSearch 2 comments 4/12/2023 computervision

is there an extension similar to TamperMonkey that will DISABLE Google Search auto-complete or "search suggestions" please? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7OTMhM0C4 2 comments 21/11/2022 chrome_extensions

Meet "Similari" - rusty in-memory vector similarity search engine https://crates.io/crates/similari 7 comments 30/6/2022 rust

[P] A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors, open sourced by Facebook. https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss 7 comments 19/12/2021 machinelearning

Study discovers process that may have produced first organic molecules for life on Earth. The process, which is similar to what might have occurred in some ancient underwater hydrothermal vents, may also have relevance to the search for life elsewhere in the universe. https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2020/048098.html 6 comments 12/10/2020 science

The vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home, but they substantially underestimate support by other similar men. When they are informed about other men's views, they become willing to help their wives search for jobs. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180975 847 comments 28/9/2020 science

Study pinpoints process that might have led to first organic molecules about 4 billion years ago, before the origin of life.. The process, which is similar to what might have occurred in ancient hydrothermal vents, may also have relevance to the search for life elsewhere in the universe. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/04/2002659117 4 comments 9/9/2020 science

[P] Natural Language Recommendations: Bert-based search engine for computer science papers. Great for search concepts without being dependent on a particular keyword or keyphrase. Inference notebook available for all to try. Plus, a TPU-based vector similarity search library. None 4 comments 12/1/2020 artificial

Snails is a modern fuzzy search framework that provides a search experience similar to VSCode. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/cw4on7/snails_is_a_modern_fuzzy_search_framework_that/ 47 comments 27/8/2019 emacs

I got tired of not being able to distinguish visited google search results from unvisited ones (that blue and dark-purple are so similar at 2AM) - so I made an extension named Link Control to help with that. It ended up being something I now consider vital for all my internet use. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-control/dibehcgiapedhoehgpinmkdmahlheekc?ref=reddit 74 comments 13/8/2019 webdev

Feeding mosquitoes sugar makes them less likely to bite, suggests new research, which found that feeding young tiger mosquitoes sugar solutions caused a physiological response similar to that after feeding on blood, and delayed their search for blood of a human host. https://theconversation.com/feeding-mosquitoes-sugar-makes-them-less-likely-to-bite-but-dont-go-leaving-out-sugary-treats-just-yet-118029 3 comments 4/6/2019 science

Why I Searched Rajiv Gandhi's Aircraft in February 1985: Mohammed Mohsin was sus[p]ended, allegedly for checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helicopter during election duty. His fate is in contrast to former UP DGP A.L. Banerjee, who recounts the day he conducted a similar search. https://thewire.in/politics/rajiv-gandhi-aircraft-al-banerjee-elections 3 comments 3/5/2019 india

I got tired of not being able to distinguish visited google search results from unvisited ones (that blue and dark-purple are so similar at 2AM) - so I made an extension named Link Control to help with that. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-control/dibehcgiapedhoehgpinmkdmahlheekc?ref=reddit 3 comments 7/1/2019 chrome

Building a similar image search https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-similar-images-finder-without-any-training-f69c0db900b5 14 comments 31/12/2018 computervision

Searching for similar names in similar places. https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/9ktajs/searching_for_similar_names_in_similar_places/ 5 comments 2/10/2018 linguistics

Browser userscript (for Greasemonkey/etc.) for metacpan: make up/down keyboard keys traverse the search results similar to duckduckgo.com (FOSS: MITL) https://www.shlomifish.org/files/files/code/metacpan-arrowkeys.user.js 4 comments 17/9/2018 perl

"Instant Search in Opera is the easiest way to browse the web" - Any extension that allow this (or something similar to this) in Chrome? https://youtu.be/4HrDL7JhVi4 7 comments 4/5/2018 chrome

Hi r/india, I created a tool to search for similar logos from the top million websites. It's more than occasionally brilliant, mostly good and rubbish at times. I'm hoping it would become a useful research tool for logo designers or anyone curious. Would love to hear your feedback. http://compute.vision 43 comments 16/2/2018 india

A new study in the journal Science takes a look at how fruit flies quickly and efficiently sort out and identify different smells. Their neural architecture is so well-designed in fact, that it could hold the key to more effective similarity searches. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/09/fruit-fly-brains-help-search-algorithms/#.whczykqnguk 3 comments 18/11/2017 science

In the search of exoplanets, why exactly are we searching for planets similar to earth in search for extra-terrestrial life? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/74ngz6/in_the_search_of_exoplanets_why_exactly_are_we/ 12 comments 6/10/2017 askscience

Use the GRC Search Space Calculator to see how fast a hacker can crack a password similar to your password. https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm 13 comments 10/9/2016 privacy

anything similar to android chrome's touch to search feature? https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/515rlz/anything_similar_to_android_chromes_touch_to/ 3 comments 4/9/2016 firefox

Because Julius Caesar introduced the Julian Calendar, the year 46 BC lasted for 445 days. I'm searching for similar grossly powerful examples through history! https://beta.waevio.com/public_event_group/julian_calendar#connect 3 comments 12/11/2015 history

After learning about slime in emacs, I searched for something similar in vim, and I found it. Embrace the REPL. https://sulami.github.io/embrace-the-repl.html 11 comments 23/7/2015 vim

What other Extensions are similar to "Select Search"? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/select-search/fcjoilhmjjhfpeflkmlhejiaadbgfkgn 3 comments 7/12/2014 chrome

Florida Gov Rick Scott readies second 'disgusting' voter purge -- "Similar searches a year ago were rife with errors, found few ineligible voters and led to lawsuits by advocacy groups that said it disproportionately targeted Hispanics, Haitians and other minority groups" http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/05/19881209-floridas-scott-readies-second-disgusting-voter-purge 3 comments 6/8/2013 politics

Investigate or Prosecute banks. WhiteHouse.gov petition to prosecute banks for money laundering. I searched but surprisingly I did not see a similar petition. http://wh.gov/uwfh 7 comments 4/1/2013 politics

Years ago, two lawyers saw Microsoft’s fast grip on the PC software market as anticompetitive. Today, they disagree on whether Google is a similar force in search http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/technology/onetime-allies-in-antitrust-part-ways-over-google.html 32 comments 17/12/2012 technology

Google easter egg screws up the kerning of results when you search for "kerning." The cunning tricksters also do something similar when you search for "keming." https://www.google.com/search?q=kerning 3 comments 6/6/2012 technology

Was searching for similarities between the rises of MySpace and Facebook and came across this interesting read http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100093915/the-killer-charts-that-show-facebook-really-could-be-dying/ 3 comments 15/5/2012 investing

Hey Proggit, here's my 1-year old pet project: similarity search engine for Wikipedia. Works by grouping articles in the eigenspace of the link transition matrix. Details are in the first comment. http://www.smartwikisearch.com 212 comments 21/8/2009 programming

Google has a new "similar images" search experiment. It's pretty cool. (Search for something, then click "similar images" below a pic.) http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=lolcat&qtype=similar&tbnid=gwumzbvow1de8m&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlolcat&tprev=/images%3Fq%3Dlolcat 17 comments 20/4/2009 technology

When a lab analyst found unrelated people with similar DNA profiles the FBI laboratory tried to stop distribution of her results and block similar searches! http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-dna20-2008jul20,0,4108871.story?track=rss 60 comments 22/7/2008 science

TinEye, new image search, give it an image and it will find similar ones http://blog.ideeinc.com/2008/03/27/project-codename-tineye-launched-in-private-beta/ 5 comments 7/5/2008 reddit.com

An Introduction to Tabu Search (Similar to Simulated Annealing) http://folk.uio.no/infheur/bakgrunn/intro_to_ts_gendreau.htm 5 comments 6/11/2007 programming

[Shultz] Multiple sources emphasized last week that the Jaguars would struggle to attract a top head coach if they kept Trent Baalke. They faced similar challenges during their last coaching search. Owner Shad Khan spoke with many people but he remains unmoved. One source just now: “F****** insane.” https://twitter.com/schultz_report/status/1876260373021782029 313 comments 6/1/2025 nfl

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