Charlie Hull
@FlaxSearch
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The Search Juggler: helping you build amazing AI & search apps. Also hachyderm dot io slash @flaxsearch & @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social
Cambridge, UK
Joined October 2010
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
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the next great limiter in AI is great search
today's AI feels smart enough for most tasks of up to a few minutes in duration, and when it can't get the job done, it's often because it lacks sufficient background context for even a very capable human to succeed
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build an international community of search PMs -we'll come up with an agenda together, a fantastic opportunity to share knowledge, tips & tricks, discuss the impact of AI & make new connections. Free to attend 24th Nov 2-5pm, https://t.co/sHrvoN0oZW - tell your PM! [2/2]
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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]
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Need to get the "value" from search? Come and find out how at Tesco next week! https://t.co/Hif7D2Cgvy 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...
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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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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 https://t.co/sHrvoN0oZW
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Part of #LondonSearchWeek is this great event from @jobergum and the https://t.co/QRMsT2H8jF team - if you want to know how search will support #agentic #AI then this is the place and time...
hornet.dev
HORNET is the retrieval engine for agents.
London - can you hear me? I'm excited to host our first https://t.co/UtnhzBwqvK event in London on the new user of search: agents. https://t.co/PaJxnkIjTN
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I'm excited to announce our first https://t.co/UtnhzBwqvK event in Stockholm on context engineering for agents! https://t.co/LPfC1b7AtR
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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! https://t.co/sHrvoN0oZW
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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" https://t.co/Hif7D2COl6 - see you there!
meetup.com
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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Re-discovering what 'fun' it is to run example projects built for Unix on Windows. Even with Docker etc. there's a ton of 'no that tool doesn't exist please install a Win32 version from this shifty-looking webpage'...and of course the back/forward slashes, always.
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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
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
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Come and get the 'Value' of networking with your peers! Our next London Search & AI Meetup will be held at Tesco on November 11th
meetup.com
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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We had an amazing London Search & AI Meetup this week at Depop, see https://t.co/SozYMHiFV4: "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
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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...
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Great little project using AI to generate source data for search!
🇧🇧 1/ OK, Barbados... my latest side-project: Tired of trawling through all the different hardware store websites looking for something? Now you can do it all in one place, introducing "Yuh Gettin' Tru?" a new site that searches all the major stores. https://t.co/9TiFcpX3hc
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context engineering is what happens when liberal arts ppl reinvent memory management. hard to blame them. prob never took classes on compilers, operating systems, or computer systems.
For LLM systems design, we can borrow the idea of memory hierarchy from computer architecture and draw a lot of parallels. Longer context doesn't invalidate the need for "RAG". Larger LLMs don't invalidate the need for search engines. Different layers of the stack.
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🔍 Search Solutions, the UK’s premier forum on search & information retrieval hosted by @bcs_irsg, is back. 🗓️ 26 Nov 2025 📍 In person, BCS, London 🎫 Discounted tickets for ISKO members Register to learn about the latest innovations in IR:
eventbrite.co.uk
Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval.
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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"
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**Sorry to say we're now full! Videos of the talks will be available.** Roll into autumn with another Search & AI Meetup! We're hosted this time by [Depop](https://www.dep
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Wrote a blog post on why we are building a new retriveal engine for agents
blog.hornet.dev
Our motivation for building Hornet, a retrieval engine built for agents
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Hugely encouraging to see @elastic embracing UBI, an open source standard for recording user interactions with search - https://t.co/TBktUyNh7J - hoping other engines do the same!
elastic.co
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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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
https://t.co/Vb4dRbCw32
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