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July 27, 2026

56% faster, up to 50% better retrieval performance: What's inside Jina's new 600 million parameter listwise reranker

Jina Reranker 3.5 beats v3 by 50%+ on case law, closes the gap with models 7x its size on legal, medical, and financial benchmarks, and beats them outright on structured data. It's a drop-in replacement for v3, with no API changes.

56% faster, up to 50% better retrieval performance: What's inside Jina's new 600 million parameter listwise reranker
AI shopping agents: Why context comes before the query

AI shopping agents: Why context comes before the query

AI shopping agents that guess at your vocabulary make expensive mistakes. Pre-computed catalog context stops the guessing before the first tool call.

A picture is worth 1.5x the words: What we learned benchmarking product search embeddings

A picture is worth 1.5x the words: What we learned benchmarking product search embeddings

We benchmarked two embedding models on 5,000 real products and found that combining image and text beats either alone by up to 50%. Here's the data and the model that won.

How to build search analytics on Elastic using OpenTelemetry, no extra pipeline required

July 8, 2026

How to build search analytics on Elastic using OpenTelemetry, no extra pipeline required

How to instrument your search application to use modern Open Telemetry standard to drive insights in to your search and users.

From judgment lists to trained Learning to Rank (LTR) models

March 31, 2026

From judgment lists to trained Learning to Rank (LTR) models

Learn how to transform judgment lists into training data for Learning To Rank (LTR), design effective features, and interpret what your model learned.

Does MCP make search obsolete? Not even close

Does MCP make search obsolete? Not even close

Explore why search engines and indexed search remain the foundation for scalable, accurate, enterprise-grade AI, even in the age of MCP, federated search, and large context windows.

Ensuring semantic precision with minimum score

February 20, 2026

Ensuring semantic precision with minimum score

Improve semantic precision by employing minimum score thresholds. The article includes concrete examples for semantic and hybrid search.

An open‑source Hebrew analyzer for Elasticsearch lemmatization

February 17, 2026

An open‑source Hebrew analyzer for Elasticsearch lemmatization

An open-source Elasticsearch 9.x analyzer plugin that improves Hebrew search by lemmatizing tokens in the analysis chain for better recall across Hebrew morphology.

Query rewriting strategies for LLMs and search engines to improve results

January 30, 2026

Query rewriting strategies for LLMs and search engines to improve results

Exploring query rewriting strategies and explaining how to use the LLM's output to boost the original query's results and maximize search relevance and recall.

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