National award for UofG search engine platform
Published: 8 January 2026
Professor Macdonald, who leads the project, said: “We've been working on PyTerrier since 2020, when it began as a project for us to work on during the first COVID-19 lockdown. As it developed, it has really changed the way we build AI powered search engines, and become an extensible ecosystem for plugging in different bits of state-of-the-art search technology."