Meilisearch

Combining Four Search Signals Without Making Them Agree: Reciprocal Rank Fusion

BM25, vector similarity, citation PageRank, and recency decay return scores on incompatible scales. Reciprocal Rank Fusion fuses them by rank position rather than raw score — no normalization required, robust to distribution shifts between scorers.

Beginner
10 minutes
Aug 5, 2026

EvidenceLens: A Self-Hosted Biomedical Search Engine with Hybrid Ranking and Conflict-of-Interest Transparency

EvidenceLens unifies 20+ fragmented medical literature sources into a single hybrid-ranked interface, surfaces author conflict-of-interest badges from public CMS Open Payments data, and runs answer synthesis entirely on the user's own inference key — zero recurring backend cost.

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