November 27, 2025
Hybrid search without the headache: simplifying hybrid search with retrievers
Explore how to simplify hybrid search in Elasticsearch with a multi-field query format for linear and RRF retrievers, and create queries with no previous knowledge about your Elasticsearch index.
November 12, 2025
You Know, for Context - Part I: The evolution of hybrid search and context engineering
Explore how hybrid search and context engineering have evolved from lexical foundations to enable the next generation of agentic AI workflows.
November 5, 2025
The impact of relevance in context engineering for AI agents
Discover how hybrid retrieval, semantic chunking, and agentic search improve LLM performance by managing context relevance efficiently.
September 15, 2025
Balancing the scales: Making reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) smarter with weights
Exploring weighted reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) in Elasticsearch and how it works through practical examples.
September 8, 2025
MCP for intelligent search
Building an intelligent search system by integrating Elastic's intelligent query layer with MCP to enhance the generative efficacy of LLMs.
Building intelligent duplicate detection with Elasticsearch and AI
Explore how organizations can leverage Elasticsearch to detect and handle duplicates in loan or insurance applications.
July 10, 2025
Diversifying search results with Maximum Marginal Relevance
Implementing the Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) algorithm with Elasticsearch and Python. This blog includes code examples for vector search reranking.
July 9, 2025
Semantic text is all that and a bag of (BBQ) chips! With configurable chunking settings and index options
Semantic text search is now customizable, with support for customizable chunking settings and index options to customize vector quantization, making semantic_text more powerful for expert use cases.
May 28, 2025
Hybrid search revisited: introducing the linear retriever!
Discover how the linear retriever enhances hybrid search by leveraging weighted scores and MinMax normalization for more precise and consistent rankings. Learn how to configure this new tool for optimized search pipelines and improve your results today.