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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 5d

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

Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 7d

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!

November Meetup at Tesco, Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We're hosted this time by Tesco. The event will start at **6.30pm** and finish by 9pm, with food and drinks available. This will be an in-person event (but we will try to r

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 12d

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...

It's your responsibility - but how do you even start fixing search? - Charlie Hull - The Search Juggler

How to get started fixing search - looking for zero result searches, low click queries and how to prioritise

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 12d

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...

November Meetup at Tesco, Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We're hosted this time by Tesco The event will start at **6.30pm** and finish by 9pm, with food and drinks available. This will be an in-person event (but we will try to re

www.meetup.com

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 14d

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

Charlie Hull - The Search Juggler

Talks, podcasts and interviews from Charlie Hull, The Search Juggler. If you're struggling to provide great search results for your users, have a search service or product that you would like to bring...

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 25d

Princess Anne owns a Scimitar and when I was young we'd occasionally see her driving it around Cirencester - it stood out even then!

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 25d

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...

Personalising at scale with Depop & Tips for a First-time Search PM, Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Roll into autumn with another Search & AI Meetup! We're hosted this time by [Depop](https://www.depop.com/gb/). The event will start at **6.30pm** and finish by 9pm, with f

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 27d

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!

Elasticsearch plugin for UBI: Analyze user data in Kibana - Elasticsearch Labs

Discover how to capture user behavior data using the Elasticsearch plugin for UBI and build a custom dashboard in Kibana to analyze it.

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 27d

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...

Haystack EU 2025 Lightning Talk: Charlie Hull – 5 Easy Steps to Fix Your Search

YouTube video by OpenSource Connections

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 28d

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...

October Search & AI with Depop and more, Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Roll into autumn with another Search & AI Meetup! We're hosted this time by [Depop](https://www.depop.com/gb/). The event will start at **6.30pm** and finish by 9pm, with f

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Oct 3

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

Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Oct 2

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...

Search Solutions 2025 - Information Retrieval SG

Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval.

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Oct 1

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

Cheat at Search with LLMs by Doug Turnbull on Maven

Learn to build LLM based query + content understanding in search

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Sep 19

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...

Measuring and improving search quality metrics - OpenSearch

From observing change to measuring search quality In the first post of this three-part series, we focused on how to measure change when switching from one search configuration to another....

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Sep 17

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

A new world of search engine tuning tools - Charlie Hull - The Search Juggler

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… Read More »A new world of search engine tuning tools

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

Test Search on Any Website with Quepid and Javascript

You can't improve search quality unless you can measure it. Quepid lets you gather relevance judgements for a set of search queries, but it usually needs access to the search engine back end - which i...

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 16

..from mid-September onwards to supercharge your search & AI do check out my background at thesearchjuggler.com and get in touch, I'm looking forward to my next challenge! [3/3]

The Search Juggler

Expert search consulting, search & AI strategy, measuring and improving search results, building search teams, search & AI talks and events

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 16

..and to delight our users - I hope to be able to present some of our work alongside the team soon. It's been a lot of fun working with such a high profile and dynamic business! If you'd like me to join your organisation (or know another that might need my help)...[2/3]

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 16

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]

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 11

..to make it sound more complicated and rigorous than it actually is, and as an actual (electronic) engineer myself this seems a little silly. Actual engineering helps bridges stay up, planes fly, cars drive and prevents your kettle from exploding...this is not the same. [2/2]

Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 11

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]

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 3

Join our Meetup at www.thesearchjuggler.com/meetup - and if you have a talk or can offer to host our next event (probably in September) please let me know at www.thesearchjuggler.com/helpmeetup [3/3]

London Search & AI User Group | Meetup

We’re a group of search & AI enthusiasts committed to sharing knowledge, tips & tricks, cool tools and techniques. We’ll cover a wide range of search technologies, from OpenSearch to Solr, Weaviate to...

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 3

* Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs, from Kapil Kumar of Roku youtu.be/Kj8E0crIGD0
* Emergent Facets: Generating Specialized Filters from Search Results, by Mark Harwood (ex Elastic) youtu.be/U1RGTMesCq0
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London Search & AI Meetup 1st July '25: Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs

YouTube video by Charlie Hull - The Search Juggler

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