Free Lesson
Offline search relevance testing with Vespa & Quepid
60 min
Jan 30, 2026 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Why offline relevance testing is a vital search tuning tool
Online A/B testing for search can take weeks to produce results, but what if B really isn’t much of an improvement on A?
How to get Vespa to return matching and scoring information
Vespa is a highly powerful and scalable AI search engine - but it can be complex. We'll show you how to get started.
How to hook up Vespa to Quepid for relevance testing
Quepid is a popular tool that provides a ‘search workbench’. We'll show how to hook it up to Vespa.
Why this topic matters
Vespa is a powerful and scalable open source search engine. Although Vespa provides some offline evaluation tools in Python, there isn’t an easy, interactive way to tune search queries. Quepid provides this for many search engines as a free service based on open source code - but it isn’t obvious how to get the data we need from Vespa’s API. We'll show you how to get started using these tools.
You'll learn from
Charlie Hull
Senior search consultant
Trey Grainger
Founder @ Searchkernel, Author "AI-Powered Search"
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