Cheat at Search with Agents

Doug Turnbull

Led Search Reddit + Shopify. Wrote Relevant Search + AI Powered Search

Instructor

Your guide to agentic search

Achievable, Relevant Search without the PhD

Search relevance once took months of dedicated expertise to see results. With LLMs and agents, you can see wins within weeks or days. In this course go from LLM query classification, to agentic search optimization, to code generation for relevance reranking

What you’ll learn

Learn to build LLM based query + content understanding in search

  • Build search backends agents can reason about

  • Why agents love simplicity over complexity

  • Sidestep complex NLP to better understand queries

  • Iterate on query understanding through agentic approaches

  • How to integrate agentic approaches into a traditional search stack

  • Best practices to manage the agentic loop to save tokens, money, and prevent context rot

  • Technical approaches to extracting agentic insights (ie code generation)

  • Letting an agent using its judgments to iterate on relevance on its own

  • Integrating external feedback (user clicks, etc) into agentic relevance

Learn directly from Doug

Doug Turnbull

Doug Turnbull

Led Search Reddit + Shopify. Wrote Relevant Search + AI Powered Search

Who this course is for

  • Search teams eager to evolve that crufty-old search engine towards a modern approach

  • Search startups eager to get a fast start with a modern approach to search, sidestepping old, outdated practices

  • Team leads and managers excited to organize their work in a way aligned with modern approaches to Relevant Search

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.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Syllabus

Week 1

Feb 2—Feb 8

    Homework

    2 items

Week 2

Feb 9—Feb 15
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Schedule

Live sessions

Projects

Async content

Frequently asked questions

$1,300

USD

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