Has GenAI Removed the Need for Search?

A panel discussion at Enterprise Search & Discovery DC 2024 featuring search experts:

• Agnes Molnar, Managing Consultant – Search Explained
• Helen Lippell, Taxonomy, Metadata & Search Consultant – Chair, Bite-Sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London
• Eric Pugh, CEO – OpenSource Connections
• Cedric Ulmer, CEO & Co-Founder – France Labs

GenAI, in little more than a year, has become one of the biggest news topics in IT. GenAI has a discovery component to it, as well as some overlap with “traditional” search, and the use of RAG to fine-tune results is already widely used. What will happen next? Will traditional search applications disappear, to be replaced by AI? Or will there be further integration? This panel discussion, with panelists from The Search Network, a group of search and taxonomy consultants and specialists who represent a wide range of opinion across the industry and academia, provides a view from both the GenAI and the “traditional” search perspectives, outlining the advantages of each.