For the Sake of Search

Apr 15 2025 5 ep. 51 mins 1

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Welcome to For the Sake of Search! An unaffiliated podcast that talks about all things search engineering. We'll be covering: search infrastructure, when should I use X search vendor, how to do search relevancy, describing search to your grandmother.

And many many more things. If you would like to be a guest on the show please reach out! I am @dtaivpp on Relevancy Slack and @taidesu on Bluesky.

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For the Sake of Search: The Tools of Relevance

Apr 15 2025 60 mins

How can you be sure your search experience is good? All it takes is the right tools. Eric and I walk through what the "right tools" are for the search engineers tool belt. Make sure to check out Quepid for testing your relevancy! https://github.com/o19s/quepid. Also, make sure to check out Haystack the Search Relevance conference!

Why shouldn't you fine tune?

Nov 13 2024 64 mins

So much recently I've seen companies obsessing over fine tuning. Should you fine tune your language models? Nicolay from AISBACH Data Solutions joins me this week as we talk through the many challenges that come when you fine tune language models. He's spent the last several years working with customers to get the most out of their LLM's and has some insights to share.

Hiring for Search

Sep 30 2024 35 mins

You wouldn't hire a network engineer to build your front end would you? Then why hire just any software engineer for search?! In this episode we talk with Brian Pedersen founder of TheSearchBar.ai to talk a bit more about the challenges of hiring search engineers. There tends to be a big disconnect between companies that want to hire search engineers and engineers that are looking

Elasticsearch's New License and Rebuilding Hacker News Search with Trieve

Sep 03 2024 52 mins

Elasticsearch is open source again? Maybe? Join Nick (@skeptrune) and I as we discuss what Elasticsearchs new license means for its users. Along with this we take a dive into Trieve (trieve.ai) a source available framework for building search and RAG workflows. How better to test a new product than rebuilding search for Hacker News?!

Good search in Postgres?!

Aug 19 2024 44 mins

We talk with Philippe from ParadeDB about search on Postgres. Historically search on Postgres has been really bad but it doesn't have to be anymore. Let's go into a bit of the why search on Postgres is the way it is. This will help us understand why it got to where it is and how ParadeDB is making it better. Session Notes:Why ParadeDB picked AGPL for their LicensePutting DuckDB int