Hybrid search in Manticore Search

Search is rarely a one-size-fits-all problem. A user typing "cheap running shoes" wants exact keyword matches, but a user asking "comfortable footwear for jogging" is expressing the same intent in different words. Traditional full-text search handles the first case well. Vector search handles the second. Hybrid search combines both in a single query so you don't have to choose. In modern search systems, this is often described as combining lexical (sparse) retrieval with semantic (dense) retriev