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by justinclift 1156 days ago
> Most search engines use TF/IDF or BM25 for relevance calculations ...

Ahhh. That's what's SQLite's "bm25()" function is for.

Was white listing the SQLite FTS functions a few days ago for DBHub.io (eg so people can use them), but don't really understand (yet) how most of them are actually used. Some day I'll get around to learning about them properly. :)