Pinecone raises $100M Series B
I honestly hope they use it to improve their documentation. I consider myself and pretty adept developer but without much background in AI and was looking for a solution for building out a recommendation engine and ended up at Pinecone.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m not the target audience but after spending some time poking around I couldn&#x27;t honestly couldn&#x27;t even figure out how to use it.<p>Even a simple Goole Search for &quot;What is a Vector Database&quot; ends up with this page.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinecone.io&#x2F;learn&#x2F;vector-database&#x2F;#what-is-a-vector-database" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinecone.io&#x2F;learn&#x2F;vector-database&#x2F;#what-is-a-vec...</a><p><i>Pinecone is a vector database that makes it easy for developers to add vector-search features to their applications</i><p>Um okay... what&#x27;s &quot;vector-search&quot;? For that sake what the eff is a &quot;Vector&quot; to begin with? Finally after getting about a third down the page we start defining what a vector is....<p>Maybe I&#x27;m not their target audience but I ended up poking around for about an hour or two before just throwing up my hands and thinking it wasn&#x27;t for me.<p>Ended up just sticking with Algolia, since we had them in place for Search anyway...