Semantic programmatic search for computable data

In plain words

Kemvi is a semantic programmatic search engine designed for finding and working with computable data. Launched in 2012, it allows users to search for structured information that can be processed and manipulated programmatically, rather than just retrieving static web pages. The platform is suited for developers, researchers, and anyone needing to access machine-readable datasets and query them efficiently.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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  As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for. I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4]. To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric. I would…

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