My understanding is that modern search engines are using embeddings / vector search under the hood.
So even if LLM's aren't directly passing a vector to the search engine, my assumption is that the search engine is converting to a vector and searching.
So even if LLM's aren't directly passing a vector to the search engine, my assumption is that the search engine is converting to a vector and searching.
"You interact with embeddings every time you complete a Google Search" from https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/embedd...