Personalized retrieval

What is personalized retrieval?

Personalized retrieval is search that ranks results by what matters to a specific person, not by general relevance alone. Standard retrieval answers which stored items best match a query. Personalized retrieval also weighs which of those a particular user would consider important — their projects, their people, their recent work. The difference shows up on ambiguous queries: a general system returns the most textually similar match, while a personalized one returns the one that is actually about your situation.