Here's the talk I gave last week on how to connect Vespa.ai to Quepid, the search workbench - including how to get an example news search application stood up, BM25 ranking and how to see which parts of each search result generated scores. maven.com/p/771bd9/off...

Very happy to announce a partnership with www.Vespa.ai ! I've been getting to know the team there over the last year & learning more about this impressive technology.Great to add Vespa to the list of search technologies I'm able to advise clients about

Quick reminder that I'm giving a free class with Trey Grainger this Friday on how to get started with Vespa.ai and in particular how to use Quepid for offline testing and query debugging. I'll give a brief intro to Vespa and Quepid, show you how to spin up an example news search...[1/2]

Join me and Trey Grainger for a Lightning Lesson about how to use Quepid with Vespa for offline search relevance testing - next Friday 30th maven.com/p/771bd9/off...

I've successfully managed to hook the #opensource search engine Vespa up to Quepid, the offline relevance testing tool. This lets you try out search queries, rate the results manually for relevance, and adjust the query syntax to see how this affects things. thesearchjuggler.com/how-to-secur...

A year of juggling, search & AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/year-j...

You can now watch the first talk from the London Search & AI Meetup on November 11th; "Judgement Day: Rethinking Search Evaluation with Language Models" given by Max Grogan & George Sykes of Tesco youtu.be/6cQ0L87uvRA

A great start to #LondonSearchWeek yesterday with the Search Product Manager Barcamp and London Information Retrieval Meetup - more here www.linkedin.com/posts/charli... - and more to come at www.londonsearchweek.com

And #LondonSearchWeek begins! On the train for our first event, a BarCamp for Search Product Managers, then the London Information Retrieval Meetup tonight www.londonsearchweek.com

Really looking forward to catching up with friends & contacts old & new next week - there's still space available for some of the events of #LondonSearchWeek. I'll be in town Mon, Wed and Thur if you'd like to meet up and chat about search & AI www.londonsearchweek.com

I love a #search conference - so I built a Search Conference Calendar! I'm updating it for 2026 so do let me know if you're running an event I should feature on thesearchjuggler.com/conferences/ - there's a 'Submit it here' link which makes it easier for me.

The registration link is now up! londonsearchweek.com/hackday-apac... Come and learn and build with #Solr!

This time next week we'll be kicking off #LondonSearchWeek with a BarCamp for Search Product Managers - and there's many more events over the next few days! A Meetup, conference, tutorials, Agentic AI and a #Solr Hackday www.londonsearchweek.com

We've added a new event to #LondonSearchWeek - a #Solr Hackday! Come along and join committer Alessandro Benedetti to build some cool things with this powerful #opensource search engine. To be held on Fri 28th Nov, venue & registration details coming soon www.londonsearchweek.com

Can you 'fix' search by just moving to a new search platform? I don't think so... thesearchjuggler.com/why-replacin...

We now have all our venues and sponsors confirmed for #LondonSearchWeek! Huge thanks to Superlinked for stepping in to host the first event, a Barcamp for Search Product Managers on Monday 24th November. Reserve your spot for any of the events at www.londonsearchweek.com

"Judgement Day: Rethinking Search Evaluation with Language Models" (Max Grogan & George Sykes, Tesco) & "Query understanding with LLMs : Approaches and Optimization in OpenSearch" (Bharav Patel, AWS) plus open Q&A at Tuesday's London Search & AI Meetup www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

The first event of #LondonSearchWeek will be a BarCamp on Search Product Management - a chance to discuss the challenges and opportunities of this vital role. This is the 3rd in a series of events originally started by my old friend René Kriegler (who'll be attending) to...[1/2]

Need to get the "value" from search? Come and find out how at Tesco next week! www.meetup.com/search-and-a... We've also got a talk on OpenSearch on query understanding. Our last Meetup was oversubscribed and we have a smaller room this time, don't wait...

Are you looking forward to #LondonSearchWeek 24-27 November? We have a BarCamp for Search Product Managers, a Search Meetup, a search conference with separate tutorial day, an evening event on Agentic AI & Search - and more planned! Check it out at www.londonsearchweek.com

London Search Week - conferences, tutorials, Meetups and a Barcamp from Nov 24th. Come and learn from some of the leading voices in Search & AI, meet your peers and grow our community! www.londonsearchweek.com

Talks at next week's London Search & AI Meetup will be "Judgement Day: Rethinking Search Evaluation with Language Models" & "Query understanding with LLM : Approaches and Optimization in OpenSearch" www.meetup.com/search-and-a... - see you there!

It's your responsibility - but how do you even get started fixing search? A blog for Search Product Managers and other search leads thesearchjuggler.com/its-your-res...

Come and get the 'Value' of networking with your peers! Our next London Search & AI Meetup will be held at Tesco on November 11th www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

We had an amazing London Search & AI Meetup this week at Depop, see youtube.com/@thesearchju...: "Putting taste at the heart of Depop's search; Personalising at scale" Hamza Wahid & Alison Wong & "3 things I’d do differently as a first-time Search Product Manager" Olena Gorbatiuk

Pleased to announce our 2nd speaker for next Wednesday's London Search & AI Meetup: Senior Search Product Manager Olena Gorbatiuk who'll tell us about "Three things I’d do differently as a first-time Search PM" www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

Hugely encouraging to see @elastic embracing UBI, an open source standard for recording user interactions with search - www.elastic.co/search-labs/... - hoping other engines do the same!

Broken search? Where do you even start? Here's my 5 Simple Steps to Fix Your Search - a lightning talk from Haystack Europe a couple of weeks ago. With juggling, naturally! #haystackconf www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFhf...

The first talk at the next London Search & AI Meetup on Oct 15th will come from our hosts Depop: "Putting taste at the heart of Depop's search; Personalising at scale" given by Hamza Wahid and Adam Stapleton. Join us at www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

Getting a bit chilly outside? Come and join a cosy Search & AI Meetup at Depop on October 15th www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

One of my favourite events of the year, Search Solutions, returns to London on November 26th (tutorials on the 25th). Keep that week open, I hear rumours about some other search events.....can't let Berlin have all the fun! More details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-sol...

Happy to announce I'll be a guest speaker during @softwaredoug.bsky.social's Cheat at Search course on Maven - join here maven.com/softwaredoug... - I'm speaking on October 16th

Following on from my recent blog about the rise in search tuning tools, specifically in the @opensearch.org ecosystem, here's my ex-colleague Daniel Wrigley with part 2 of a three-part series on how to actually use these tools opensearch.org/blog/measuri...

Exciting developments from @opensearch.org on search engine tuning tools - thesearchjuggler.com/a-new-world-...

Proud to announce I've been selected as an OpenSearch Ambassador! opensearch.org/blog/introdu...

Very happy to announce I'll be joining Doug Turnbull on his regular series of Maven Lightning Lessons, showing you how to easily test search on *any* website! Free to join on Friday 29th August maven.com/p/6749f6/tes...

So I'm just over half way through my time at Moonpig in the UK - I've been helping the team build offline testing infrastructure, tools and processes, implement analytics and dashboards and tune their search (based on OpenSearch) for the maximum business benefit...[1/3]

Apparently 'content engineering' is now a thing, e.g. making new content all with AI. This follows on the heels of 'prompt engineering' e.g. working out how to tell the AI what to do by writing instructions in plain English. You can append 'engineering' to anything...[1/2]

Check out the videos of the talks from this week's London Search & AI Meetup and find out how to use AI to improve search: * Spicing Up Search:hot_pepper: : The Recipe for Relevant Results, presented by Jéssica Fernanda Cebrián Aguirre and Mike from Just Eat Takeaway.com youtu.be/SjmCGEW3er0 [1/3]

Interesting chat with Mark Harwood at the London Search & AI Meetup: we talked about how those building search engines should consult more with those actively using & tuning them in the wild, to identify useful new features & annoying bugs....[1/2]

We have a bonus talk for next Tuesday's London Search & AI Meetup from our hosts Just Eat! "Spicing Up Search🌶️ : The Recipe for Relevant Results" - still some space available www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

Only a week to go until the next London Search & AI Meetup and we're filling up! Come along and hear Mark Harwood (ex Elastic) and Kapil Kumar (Roko) talk about Emergent Facets & Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

Watch me break search on some well-known websites at Berlin Buzzwords here - and discuss what this tells us www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoi...

Very happy to announce that the always entertaining Mark Harwood bsky.app/profile/elas... will be our second speaker at the London Search & AI Meetup on July 1st: "Emergent Facets: Generating Specialized Filters from Search Results" - sign up today! www.meetup.com/search-and-a...

Looking forward to speaking at Berlin Buzzwords next week! Come and join me? 9.30 on Tuesday 17th June 2025.berlinbuzzwords.de

We're back with another London Search & AI Meetup on 1st July at Just Eat! www.meetup.com/search-and-a... Our first talk is from Kapil Kumar of Roku on "Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs" - 2nd talk will be announced soon. Plus time for Q&A and general networking.

I've been a little quiet recently as I'm working on a client engagement - so I thought I'd write about what I actually *do* as a search consultant thesearchjuggler.com/a-holistic-a...

Watch me rush through how to use Quepid to gather human judgments (ratings) for search results from any website, and laugh at my terrible Javascript! From OpenSearchCon Europe last month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwWR...

AI Agents are the new Advanced Searchers - how could we enable them with approaches like #MCP and Search-R1 ? thesearchjuggler.com/ai-agents-ar...

Very happy to announce I've started working as a fractional Search Lead at Moonpig Group www.moonpig.group , a leading light in greeting cards & gifts in the UK and Netherlands and a member of the FTSE250. There are some fascinating search challenges to work on!