---
title: "Google Photos Slides: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of BM25 for Agentic Search"
category: "slides"
import_id: "aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6"
author: "boxofchocolates"
sourceLabels: ["Google Photos share", "Phone photo slide evidence", "RapidOCR text"]
confidence: "high"
---

# Google Photos Slides: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of BM25 for Agentic Search

## Source
- Author: boxofchocolates
- Source type: Google Photos album import supplied to the wiki builder.
- Imported source layer: `raw/sources/google-photos-slides/aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/`
- OCR engine: RapidOCR over downloaded Google Photos images.

## Relationship To World's Fair 2026
These photos are matched to the following scheduled session(s):
- [[2026-06-29-jo-kristian-bergum-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-bm25-for-agentic-search]] - The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search

## Match Confidence
- Confidence: high
- OCR names HORNET, BM25, agentic retrieval, Jo Kristian Bergum, and Hornet.dev.
- The concepts match the official BM25 for agentic search session.
- Timestamp note: Photo timestamps should be treated as capture provenance; official schedule fields remain canonical.

## Photo Slides
### Photo 008
- Captured at UTC: 2026-06-30T18:26:16.917000+00:00
- Captured local clock: 2026-06-30T11:26:16.917000+00:00
- Raw OCR: `raw/sources/google-photos-slides/aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/ocr/photo-008.txt`

![[assets/slides/google-photos-aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/photo-008.jpg]]

OCR text:

> HORNET
> We bet on BM25.100M web documents.top-
> 100
> engineA
> brigh

### Photo 009
- Captured at UTC: 2026-06-30T18:26:44.850000+00:00
- Captured local clock: 2026-06-30T11:26:44.850000+00:00
- Raw OCR: `raw/sources/google-photos-slides/aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/ocr/photo-009.txt`

![[assets/slides/google-photos-aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/photo-009.jpg]]

OCR text:

> HORNET
> World'sFair
> Four claims to 16/takeaways
> remember.
> 01 The new user Which BM25? 2
> GPT-5 searches with operators,years,phrases,retries parser/chunks/fields/k1/b/top-k
> E0 04
> Why it is effective BM25 +grep is all you need
> exact, cheap,inspectable,steerable in the Loop retrieve,inspect,narrow,verify.repeat

### Photo 010
- Captured at UTC: 2026-06-30T18:27:50.402000+00:00
- Captured local clock: 2026-06-30T11:27:50.402000+00:00
- Raw OCR: `raw/sources/google-photos-slides/aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/ocr/photo-010.txt`

![[assets/slides/google-photos-aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6/photo-010.jpg]]

OCR text:

> HORNET
> World'sFair
> 18/contact
> Follow-up Come talk AgenticRetrieval HORNET
> retrieval with me. Edit profile
> x.com/jobergum JoKristian Bergum @jobergum
> bergum@honet.dev Hornet.dev CEO Homet.dev-The retrieval engine built foragents. Trondheim,Norge @hormet.dev Joined July 2009>
> 1,509Following 20.1KFollowers