Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour
MarkTechPost 3 days ago 1
Keenable AI released NEEDLE, an open-source live web search benchmark that avoids leakage by regenerating its query sets from fresh public sources while preventing engines from fetching or re-ranking results. The benchmark regenerates news queries hourly (from RSS feeds and Google Trends) and scores 15 search APIs against an “ultimate” pooled oracle ceiling, with evidence clipped to 2,000 characters. Results are now reported against a moving, field-wide achievable ceiling rather than a static test set, changing evaluation to separate retrieval failures from ranking failures across the market.