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What is agentic search? (and why should I care!?)

60 min
Dec 12, 2025 12:30 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

Let agents take control of your search

A good agent can plan and reason, turning a user's query into a plan to use even basic search tools to explore a corpus

How Agentic RAG wins over traditional RAG

Traditional RAG gives you one chance to formulate a query and get the right information for the user.

How to inject the user's perspective

An agent uses its own judgment on whether the returned content helps the user. Go beyond this with user input.

Why this topic matters

If an agent can reason and use tools, it can solve search! Why struggle against complex query understanding and reranking models when you have an agent? Learn how agents turn even the most basic search tools into a useful search experience

You'll learn from

Doug Turnbull

Doug Turnbull

Search Consultant

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