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ApolonTorq
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Dropbox Dash indexing/preparation and configuration

I'm experimenting with the Dropbox Dash beta. Its uncomfortably "blackbox" to me.   What I'd like to be able to do is see what data sources and folders its currently indexing or preparing with embe...
Dropbox Dash
ApolonTorq's avatar
ApolonTorq
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Weird, but doing a three word search comes up with meaningful matches for Dropbox files but appears to match on anything possible for Outlook search.

 

Is Dropbox Dash based on "traditional BM25" keyword based search, vector/neural search or a hybrid?

 

From a few simple tests, it appears to be keyword search which significantly reduces the value proposition even if it supplied AI on the tail end of the search results. Clear statements on search functionality and approach now and going forward would be welcome.

 

 

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