Embrace or replace: the different ways OpenSearch & Elasticsearch adopt third party plugins
How Elasticsearch and OpenSearch work with externally created plugins – and how they could do better
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The world of Search Meetups
I love a Search Meetup! The chance to get together in an informal setting with others enthusiastic about search engine technology, hear some talks, grab a slice of pizza and chat. I’ve run several over the years – the London… Read More »The world of Search Meetups
How to securely hook up Quepid to Vespa
I’ve been learning more about Vespa, an open source search engine originally developed to serve and search huge amounts of content and traffic at Yahoo! and now developed by a spinout company. Vespa is hugely flexible and powerful and I’ve… Read More »How to securely hook up Quepid to Vespa
Why replacing your search engine may not fix your search
As a search manager or search team lead, you’ll occasionally be asked to consider whether you should migrate to a new technology platform. In fact, this may come up on a regular basis, as salespeople “just check in” (in case… Read More »Why replacing your search engine may not fix your search
It’s your responsibility – but how do you even start fixing search?
As a Product Manager or engineering lead within a search team, it’s often hard to know where to start fixing search. You’ll have a list of complaints from users, management, those producing content, customer support teams; a backlog of things… Read More »It’s your responsibility – but how do you even start fixing search?
A new world of search engine tuning tools
Tuning search engines to return the best results for users is a constant process of experimentation, measurement and adjustment. We hope that we have enough data about what results users prefer – perhaps derived from which results they click on… Read More »A new world of search engine tuning tools
A holistic approach to search engine consulting
I’m currently working as a fractional Search Lead at Moonpig, the first company to sell greeting cards and related gifts online in the UK. The job title is somewhat vague, so I thought I’d give you a general insight into… Read More »A holistic approach to search engine consulting
AI Agents are the new Advanced Searchers
Experts use Advanced Search to zero in on exactly what they need – do AI Agents need to do the same and how can we enable this with frameworks like MCP and Search-R1?
A new Search Meetup for London
Join me at a new Search & AI Meetup in London this April 3rd – featuring amazing talks from leading voices in search & AI
Making search relevance judgements is BORING – so let’s get AI to do it!
I recently wrote about a way to make Quepid, the relevance testing tool, work with pretty much any website. I did this by hacking Quepid’s ability to work with a nice tidy Search API that returns JSON, instead using Javascript… Read More »Making search relevance judgements is BORING – so let’s get AI to do it!