elasticsearch/docs/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/vector-queries.md
Craig Taverner 94cad286bc
Restructure query-languages docs files for clarity (#124797)
In a few previous PR's we restructured the ES|QL docs to make it possible to generate them dynamically.

This PR just moves a few files around to make the query languages docs easier to work with, and a little more organized like the ES|QL docs.

A bit part of this was setting up redirects to the new locations, so other repo's could correctly link to the elasticsearch docs.
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# Vector queries [vector-queries]
Vector queries are specialized queries that work on vector fields to efficiently perform [semantic search](docs-content://solutions/search/semantic-search.md).
[`knn` query](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-knn-query.md)
: A query that finds the *k* nearest vectors to a query vector for [`dense_vector`](/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/dense-vector.md) fields, as measured by a similarity metric.
[`sparse_vector` query](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-sparse-vector-query.md)
: A query used to search [`sparse_vector`](/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/sparse-vector.md) field types.
[`semantic` query](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-semantic-query.md)
: A query that allows you to perform semantic search on [`semantic_text`](/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/semantic-text.md) fields.
## Deprecated vector queries [_deprecated_vector_queries]
The following queries have been deprecated and will be removed in the near future. Use the [`sparse_vector` query](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-sparse-vector-query.md) query instead.
[`text_expansion` query](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-text-expansion-query.md)
: A query that allows you to perform sparse vector search on [`sparse_vector`](/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/sparse-vector.md) or [`rank_features`](/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/rank-features.md) fields.
[`weighted_tokens` query](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-weighted-tokens-query.md)
: Allows to perform text expansion queries optimizing for performance.