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Your RAG Searches by Meaning. But What About Exact Words? Meet BM25
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Dev.to | Sep 26, 2026 | Rijul Rajesh
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BM25 is a ranking formula used to score how relevant a document is to a search query. Inverse document frequency → How rare is the term? Document length → Is the document unusually long?
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