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Charlie Hull
@thesearchjuggler.bsky.social
The Search Juggler: expert consultant in search & AI, conference host & speaker, author - get my help at www.thesearchjuggler.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
London Search Week
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November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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
London Search Week
www.londonsearchweek.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"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...
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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November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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]
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
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
www.meetup.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
www.meetup.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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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October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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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October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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October 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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.
www.elastic.co
October 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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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October 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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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October 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Getting a bit chilly outside? Come and join a cosy Search & AI Meetup at Depop on October 15th
www.meetup.com/search-and-a...
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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October 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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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September 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Proud to announce I've been selected as an OpenSearch Ambassador! opensearch.org/blog/introdu...
September 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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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August 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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]
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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]
July 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM