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Agentic Search: What's the big deal?
Part of Exploring Modern AI Search
60 min
Mar 2, 2026 1:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
What problem agentic search solves
How users can go to tediously scanning search results, to having a agentic partner research on their behalf
Why you may not need that big search stack
Agents can reason about simple search tools (ie a keyword index). They may not a complex search backend
How agents can write their own search code
Emerging patterns in agentic search from Recursive Language Models, giving agents their own coding abilities, and more
Why this topic matters
Agents rewire how search works. Historically search interprets a few short keywords. These represent a complex paragraph-length information need. We've built enormous complexity to understand, parse, and rank against that tiny hint of what the user wants.
Why rely on hints?
Agents can work against the full info need. They add reasoning + tool use + code generation, completely revamping search.
You'll learn from
Doug Turnbull
Search and Snuggie Enthusiast
Trey Grainger
Founder @ Searchkernel, Author "AI-Powered Search"
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