History — 2026 week 22 (May 25 – May 31, 2026)

Newest first.

2026-05-31 — LLM Judges, Agentic Retrieval & Bias Concepts (~20 notes)

ArticlesClassic ML to Cope with Dumb LLM Judges (by Doug Turnbull, published 2025-01-21), What AI Engineers Should Know about Search (by Doug Turnbull, published 2024-06-25), Search Quality Assurance with AI as a Judge (by Tao Ruangyam at Zalando, published 2026-03-17), This Is What Agentic Retrieval Looks Like (by Jo Kristian Bergum at Hornet, published 2026-05-20), Agentic Search for Context Engineering (by Leonie Monigatti at Elastic, published 2026-05-27).

ConceptsLLM as Judge, Pointwise Relevance Evaluation, Pairwise Relevance Evaluation, Listwise Relevance Evaluation, Position Bias, Presentation Bias, Relevance Feedback, Context Engineering.

CompaniesHornet (agentic retrieval infrastructure), Zalando (European fashion e-commerce).

PeopleJo Kristian Bergum (Hornet co-founder, former Vespa AI Chief Scientist), Tao Ruangyam (Zalando search engineering), Leonie Monigatti (Elastic developer advocate).

TopicsSearch Quality Assurance and Conversational and Agentic Search expanded.


2026-05-28 — Topic Expansion (1 note)

TopicsEnterprise Search — new topic page covering enterprise-specific search challenges, internal knowledge bases, and vendor landscape.


2026-05-26 — Recent Articles (2 notes)

ArticlesWhen Reranking Becomes a System Boundary (by Ravindra Harige, published 2026-05-25), From Elasticsearch to Vespa - Rebuilding the Kleinanzeigen Homepage Feed Part 1 (by Andre Charton at Kleinanzeigen, published 2026-05-22).