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 <!-- Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root. -->
 
+IMPORTANT: This repository is deprecated and will be archived -
+please use [vespa.ai](https://vespa.ai/) to find other resources for ranking.
+
+
 Vespa for Data Scientists
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