How WP Engine brings AI innovation to websites with Elastic and Google Cloud

Luke Patterson

Senior Product Manager

WP Engine

Sunile Manjee

Senior Principal Solutions Architect

Elastic

Delphin Barankanira

ISV Partner Engineering Lead, Data & AI Specialist

Google Cloud

WP Engine powers 44% of the internet, from personal blogs to enterprise commerce. That diversity creates a tough challenge: How do you deliver fast, relevant, multilingual, semantic search and AI experiences across wildly different content models and conversion goals without building bespoke "glue code" for every site?

In this webinar, the WP Engine team will walk through how they're using Elastic on Google Cloud to power AI-driven website experiences by combining hybrid retrieval (keyword + vector), scalable managed infrastructure, and modern AI tooling to accelerate product innovation.

You'll learn how WP Engine is evolving from traditional hosting into AI-powered product features, and how Elastic and Google Cloud help the team ship faster without sacrificing performance, relevance, or reliability.

Highlights

• How WP Engine supports arbitrary content structures (structured + unstructured) and normalizes them for search and AI
• Why hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vectors) is essential for real-world website experiences
• How Elastic acts as a vector database + search platform, including ELSER for semantic relevance
• How Google Cloud enables scalable AI innovation with Vertex AI and Gemini integrations
• Practical tips to improve relevance, reduce bounce rates, and support traffic spikes with zero downtime

Additional resources

• Read WP Engine's full customer story.
• Start a free trial with Elastic on Google Cloud.