Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Charlie Hull on role of Search in AI era

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