Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
Pocket Search folds a search index down to size
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An open-source library and browser experiment let readers compare how shrinking and compressing a search index affects retrieval.
- For
- Developers exploring on-device search
- Worth noticing
- The demo compares results against a full-size float32, 768-d index and offers a 1-bit-plus-rerank setting.
Field notes
The page frames index reduction as a sequence of measurable tradeoffs, with controls for vector dimensions and storage formats rather than a single recommended setting. Its command-line help corpus holds back each page’s last example as a query, and the page distinguishes recall@10 from whether the correct page appears in the top ten. The reported headline is presented as a benchmark result, not as a claim about EmbeddingGemma 2 itself.
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