This episode was recorded LIVE during Berlin Buzzwords 2026 Charlie's site and blog: https://thesearchjuggler.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliehullsearch/ Search Relevance Slack (7000 search professionals): https://join.slack.com/t/relevancy/shared_invite/zt-42nhd2z7n-c8QAsDCYU8hFi8c2pRrXKg Charlie's panel at bbuzz, featuring yours truly among a group of distinguished search and ML people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y Time codes 00:00 Intro 00:42 Charlie's take on this year's Berlin Buzzwords 01:55 Based on the panel: Charlie's first encounter of AI 04:55 Is preserving search still a question? 5:48 Charlie's "old" search technique to improve quality of search 7:58 Explainability gap 9:03 Did LLMs change Charlie's life 12:07 Query Understanding is still a complex topic 13:14 Vector search or not 17:28 Meetups and places to learn with Charlie 19:25 Charlie's message to the search makers 23:00 What is fundamentally missing in our space 26:03 Where to follow Charlie's work Show notes: - Upcoming Vespa conference: http://www.vespaai.live/ - Where find Charlie? On meetups: http://www.searchmeetups.com/ - http://www.thesearchjuggler.com/ - https://searchmeetups.com/ - A neat trick for protecting numbers when using fuzzy search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34afYwYqyM Rss Apple Podcaster →
