Charlie Hull
@FlaxSearch
The Search Juggler: helping you build amazing AI & search apps. Also hachyderm dot io slash @flaxsearch & @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social
PLEASE NOTE! I'm also now on hachyderm dot io as @Flaxsearch if you would like to join me on the er...wooden pole a sail is attached to, letter after N, short name for university professor or teacher? #blockthatElon
A realistic, honest and quite non-partisan comparison, admitting that we can always learn to do better:those publishing benchmarks with a lot of marketing spin should learn from this post.
Someone asked me for my opinion on the Vespa vs. Elasticsearch performance comparison today at Berlin Buzzwords, so I gave it a try: jpountz.github.io/2025/06/17/ana…
We have a bonus talk for next Tuesday's London Search & AI Meetup from our hosts Just Eat! "Spicing Up Search🌶️ : The Recipe for Relevant Results" - still some space available meetup.com/search-and-ai-…
Only a week to go until the next London Search & AI Meetup and we're filling up! Come along and hear @elasticmark and Kapil Kumar (Roko) talk about Emergent Facets & Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs meetup.com/search-and-ai-…
Watch me break search on some well-known websites at Berlin Buzzwords here - and discuss what this tells us youtube.com/watch?v=HIoivN… #bbuzz
Let’s start the day with breaking search for fun ( I’m not so sure where the profit comes from 😂) #bbuzz
Very happy to announce that the always entertaining @elasticmark will be our second speaker at the London Search & AI Meetup on July 1st: "Emergent Facets: Generating Specialized Filters from Search Results" - sign up today! meetup.com/search-and-ai-…
Looking forward to speaking at Berlin Buzzwords next week! Come and join me? 9.30 on Tuesday 17th June 2025.berlinbuzzwords.de
We're back with another London Search & AI Meetup on 1st July at Just Eat! meetup.com/search-and-ai-… Our first talk is from Kapil Kumar of Roku on "Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs"- 2nd talk to be announced soon. We'll also have time for Q&A and networking
I've been a little quiet recently as I'm working on a client engagement - so I thought I'd write about what I actually *do* as a search consultant thesearchjuggler.com/a-holistic-app…
Watch me rush through how to use Quepid to gather human judgments (ratings) for search results from any website, and laugh at my terrible Javascript! From OpenSearchCon Europe last month. youtube.com/watch?v=wwWRhM…