How retrieval works

Overview

Retrieval finds potentially relevant pages from billions of indexed documents. Both keyword matching and semantic understanding determine which pages enter the ranking stage. Pages must be retrieved before they can rank. If your pages aren't retrieved for target queries, they can't rank, no matter how optimized.

Query to candidate pages flow

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