Very excited to announce the programme for Vespa AI Live this September 9-10! Talks from Etsy and Ravenpack, insights from the Vespa team, Trey Grainger, Doug Turnbull & Alessandro Benedetti. Get your tickets to join us in London or online now content.vespa.ai/vespa-live

Just added a few more search & AI events to my Conference Calendar - hope to see you at some of the European events in June and later in the year at Vespa.ai Live and Search Solutions in London! thesearchjuggler.com/conferences/

I'll be talking at Mix Camp E-commerce Search (MICES) in Berlin on June 10th on "How much searchandizing is too much searchandizing" - when it should and should not be used, techniques to apply and how to make results explainable both internally and externally. Free tickets on sale now! www.mices.co

Effective search applications (and by extension, AI systems like RAG) are hugely dependent on *context*.This context can be complex and multidimensional - so how can we improve how we store and manipulate it? thesearchjuggler.com/search-ai-in...

"AI is here – time to throw away our search engines?" -I'm back hosting another fun and informative panel at Berlin Buzzwords with some of the world's leading lights in search & AI - come and join us for the last session on Monday 8th! 2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/ai-i...

Just a quick reminder to submit your talk to the very first Vespa.ai Live conference, to be held in London on September 10th! Find the link (and how to book tickets, early bird is £99) at content.vespa.ai/vespa-live - we're looking for talks with a Vespa theme or more generally about search & AI.

The videos from OpenSearchCon EU 2026 are out! You can watch my Unconference talk titled "A neat trick for protecting numbers when using fuzzy search" here youtu.be/YZJBdGO0LR4?...

Tickets are now on sale for Vespa.ai Live in London on September 10th! Featuring talks on this highly scalable open source search & AI platform used by Yahoo, Vinted & Perplexity.ai amongst others - you can also submit a talk by April 30th. Get yours at content.vespa.ai/vespa-live

In advance of OpenSearchCon EU this week I've written about using fuzzy search for typo tolerance-using Aiven's new free tier for OpenSearch for my experiments. I also show you how to protect things you don't want to be fuzzy - product numbers, sizes for example! thesearchjuggler.com/fuzzy-search...

I enjoyed working with Alexei Atavin and the Aiven team on this blog - it's sometimes the very simple things that break aiven.io/blog/how-a-s...

I'll be in Prague next week - looking forward to meeting up with old friends from OSC, Aiven & AWS OpenSearch,acting as an OpenSearch Ambassador, showing off some fun experiments I've been doing with OpenSearch & learning lots! events.linuxfoundation.org/opensearchco...

Very happy to announce we'll be bringing Vespa.ai Live to London on September 10th! I've been working with the team at Vespa to put together an awesome day of talks, discussions, networking and more. CFP open until April 30th, Vespa training the day before. content.vespa.ai/vespa-live

External plugins fill the gap between what search platforms provide and users actually need - I wrote about how OpenSearch & Elasticsearch adopt third party plugins & how it could be done better thesearchjuggler.com/embrace-or-r...

Community over Code (which used to be ApacheCon) is coming to Glasgow this October - and the CFP is open until March 20th. There's a Search track so if you've got a talk that fits do submit it! communityovercode.org/call-for-pre...

Want to get together with others to talk about Search & AI? Join (or start) a Search Meetup! I've created a zoomable map of over 180 events across the world, with health indicators, member numbers and locations. Let me know what I've missed! thesearchjuggler.com/the-world-of...

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...