The Sourcing Institute Blog What is Semantic Search and why should recruiters care about it?

Semantics is the field of study that focuses on meaning. Semantic search engines, therefore, would be ones capable of understanding the meaning of content for which they search. We define meaning as the message inherently intended, expressed or signified in symbols, words, phrases, sentences and larger blocks of text. A semantic search engine would need to understand not only the meaning of the data but that of the question being asked. And it would need to do this instantly o [...]