For the Sake of Search Podcast by David Tippett

Episodes 8

Avg. Duration 50m

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (2)

Since Aug 2024

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Months

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About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

S2E2 Intent aware search with Dom Couldwell

Jun 01, 2026 46m

Search is changing fast. AI has raised user expectations, vector search has brought in a wave of new builders, and more teams are realizing that similarity alone does not mean relevance. In this…

S2E1 Understanding users at internet scale with Tito Sierra

Apr 27, 2026 56m

How can we determine what users are looking for when they search? We’re joined by Tito Sierra, Director of Product Management at Yahoo, to break down how modern search engines interpret queries at…

S1E6 Milvus - The First Open Source Vector DB

May 14, 2025 44m

HNSW and IVF in the same index? This week we have James (Xiaofan Luan) the VP of Engineering from Zilliz to talk about some of the magic that makes Milvus special. They use all sorts of techniques…

S1E5 The Tools of Relevance

Apr 15, 2025 1h

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…

S1E4 Why shouldn't you fine tune?

Nov 13, 2024 1h 4m

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…

S1E3 Hiring for Search

Sep 30, 2024 35m

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…

S1E2 Elasticsearch's New License and Rebuilding Hacker News Search with Trieve

Sep 03, 2024 52m

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…

S1E1 Good search in Postgres?!

Aug 19, 2024 44m

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…