{"id":10157,"date":"2012-11-07T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/semantic-search\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:01:07","slug":"semantic-search","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/23731\/semantic-search","title":{"rendered":"Semantic Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_semantic_search_mean\">What Does Semantic Search Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Semantic search is a data searching technique in a which a search query aims to not only find keywords, but to determine the intent and contextual meaning of the the words a person is using for search. <\/p>\n<p>Semantic search provides more meaningful search results by evaluating and understanding the search phrase and finding the most relevant results in a website, database or any other data repository.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_semantic_search\">Techopedia Explains Semantic Search<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Semantic search works on the principles of language semantics. 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