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Improving Search Relevance

Doug Turnbull

Worked with 100+ teams on search quality

Make a step change in search quality

Poor search destroys user experience. It frustrates users in e-commerce, legal, medical, and nearly every domain. Now with AI, we see agentic and RAG applications sink or swim on the accuracy of search results.

In this workshop we uncover what's holding you back. What key problem areas prevent you from making progress on search? Why haven't you gotten to the next level?

We'll stack-rank the highest impact changes you could make to your search.

What you’ll learn

    Workshop agenda

    • Quantify search's business value

      For search to serve the organization, it must be measured and quantified. How do you measure and evaluate search quality

    • Experimentation and feedback

      Accurate experimentation sits at the foundation of good search. Do you A/B test? Do you evaluate search by hand labeling results? Or do you just say "LGTM"?

    • L0 Retrieval - vector, lexical, and other

      Initial retrieval casts a wide net. The smartest downstream ranker will fail with nothing to rank farther down the stack

    • Reranking + Learning to Rank

      Do you rerank search results after your initial retrieval? If so, is that a model you train? Or something off the shelf? Let's see what opportunities you might have to improve result accuracy

    • Query Understanding

      If you accurately understand the user's request, you can reflect their intent back to them. We'll dive into your query (+content) understanding and how to improve it.

    Learn directly from Doug

    Doug Turnbull

    Doug Turnbull

    Search + Retrieval expert

    Coached teams at
    Shopify.com
    Apple
    Amazon
    Reddit
    Wikipedia
    See all products from Cheat at Search

    Who this workshop is for

    • Search teams - anyone feeling like their teams plateaued with search relevance and wants a way to get to the next level

    • Executives - leadership teams eager to strategize about where the direction to take their search strategy

    What's included

    Doug Turnbull

    Live sessions

    Learn directly from Doug Turnbull in a real-time, interactive format.

    Lifetime access

    Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

    Community of peers

    Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

    Certificate of completion

    Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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