Links

• ​Algolia - Site Search & Discovery powered by AI.

• ​Toshi - Full-text search engine in rust.

• ​Sonic - Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

• ​CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow (2019)​

• ​Bayard - Full-text search and indexing server written in Rust.

• ​MeiliSearch - Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API. (Web) (HN) (GitHub)

• ​MeiliSearch JavaScript Client​

• ​MeiliSearch React - Integrate a front-end search bar in your React application using MeiliSearch.

• ​MeiliSearch Go - MeiliSearch API client written for Go.

• ​Hands on with: MeiliSearch - A next generation search engine for modern web (2020)​

• ​The Joy of Search - Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics.

• ​searX - Metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

• ​DarkDarkGo - Modeled Google and Bing to build a distributed search engine for the dark web.

• ​How is search so bad? A case study (2020) (HN)

• ​Lobsters: How would one build a search engine today? (2020)​

• ​Building a search engine from scratch (2019) - Whirlwind tour of the big ideas powering our web search.

• ​Typesense - Fast, typo tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences. (Web) (HN) (HN)

• ​go-query - Blazingly fast query engine.

• ​Blast - Full text search and indexing server, written in Go, built on top of Bleve.

• ​Riot search - Go Open Source, Distributed, Simple and efficient full text search engine.

• ​YouTokenToMe - Unsupervised text tokenizer focused on computational efficiency.

• ​Milvus - Open source vector similarity search engine. (Web)

• ​PISA - Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. (HN)

• ​Apache Lucene - High-performance, full featured text search engine library written in Java. (Awesome)

• ​NNS Benchmark: Evaluating Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithms in High Dimensional Euclidean Space​

• ​The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page (1998)​

• ​Million Short - Search engine that lets you exclude top sites.

• ​Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites? (2020)​

• ​Query Combinators (2017)​

• ​Quickref - Experimental search engine for developers. Searches a curated subset of the web: official docs and community-driven sources. (Lobsters) (HN)

• ​Tantivy - Full text search engine library written in Rust.

• ​sonar - Search engine based on tantivy with a Node.js frontend.

• ​How to make PageRank faster (with lots of math and a hint of Python) (2020)​

• ​Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (2013) (HN)

• ​Tinysearch - Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and WASM. (Article) (HN)

• ​Tinysearch-Go - Go based WASM Tiny Search inspired by Endler.dev.

• ​Elasticlunr.js - Lightweight full-text search engine in JavaScript for browser search and offline search. (Code)

• ​Zola - Can build a search index from the sections and pages content to be used by a JavaScript library such as elasticlunr.

• ​Creating a full-text search engine in Apache Pinot (2020) (HN)

• ​HN: Building a Search Engine for Programmers (2020)​

• ​Search Commons - Open source project that maintains a directory of websites you can restrict your search to. (Code)

• ​Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick (2020) (HN)

• ​Reducing search indexing latency to one second (2020) (HN)

• ​Ecosia - Search engine that plants trees. (HN)

• ​paxx - Simple inverted index search engine.

• ​Sajari - AI-driven Search Solutions.

• ​Runnaroo - A Better Private Search Engine. (HN)

• ​Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web. (HN)

• ​Let's build a Full-Text Search engine (2020) (Lobsters) (HN) (Code)

• ​ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search (2020) (HN)

• ​Neeva - Search Reimagined. (HN)

• ​aPPR - Approximate Personalized Page Rank.

• ​Infinity Search - Open-source search engine. (Code) (HN)

• ​hndex.org - Full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN. (HN)

• ​Sourcegraph - Search public code.

• ​Autocomplete VS graph - Visualization of Google's autocomplete. (Code)

• ​Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data (2020) (HN)

• ​Create and use HTML full text search index (C++)​

• ​Google Search tips​

• ​Searching code with Sourcegraph (Lobsters)

• ​A Fast Fuzzy Search Implementation (2020)​

• ​Using a search engine as a programmer (2020)​

• ​Google's powerful code search tooling (2020)​

• ​Full-Text Search Battle: PostgreSQL vs Elasticsearch (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​Lunr.js - Small, full-text search library for use in the browser. Indexes JSON documents and provides a simple search interface for retrieving documents that best match text queries. (Web)

• ​Linxy - Search engine which creates feeds based on multiple input search phrases. (HN)

• ​Awesome Algolia​

• ​Write an Internet search engine with 200 lines of Ruby code (2009)​

• ​The Search Engine Map​

• ​Algolia Netlify plugin - Automatically index your website to Algolia when deploying your project to Netlify with the Algolia Crawler.

• ​How Google autocomplete predictions are generated (2020)​

• ​Fist - Fast, lightweight, full-text search and index server. Fist stores all information in memory making lookups very fast while also persisting the index to disk. The index can be accessed over a TCP connection and all data returned is valid JSON.

• ​Towards an Understanding of Search Engines (2017)​

• ​Search personal websites (2020)​

• ​GoCrawler - Distributed web crawler implemented using Go, Postgres, RabbitMQ and Docker.

• ​From Then to Now: a Curated List for Neural Search and Jina (2020)​

• ​CodeSearch - Search engine for code, written in Rust. (Article)

• ​InstantSearch.js - JavaScript library for building performant and instant search experiences with Algolia. (Docs) (React InstantSearch - Lightning-fast search for React and React Native applications)

• ​Unofficial Google Advanced Search​

• ​Edgesearch - Build a full text search API using Cloudflare Workers and WebAssembly.

• ​fzy-lua - Lua port of fzy's fuzzy string matching algorithm.

• ​Firesearch - Serverless full-text search. For Google Cloud Platform. (Code)

• ​Qwant - Search engine that respects your privacy. (HN)

• ​YaCy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance. (Code)

• ​We can do better than DuckDuckGo (2020) (HN)

• ​PolyFuzz - Fuzzy string matching, grouping, and evaluation.

• ​Xapiand - Modern Highly Available Distributed RESTful Search and Storage Engine built for the Cloud and with Data Locality in mind. (Web)

• ​Xapian - Open Source Search Engine Library. Written in C++. (Web)

• ​NZBHydra - Meta search for newznab indexers and torznab trackers.

• ​Fast Autocomplete Search for Your Website (2018)​

• ​Whoogle Search - Self hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine. (Code)

• ​Mojeek - Alternative search engine that puts the people who use it first. Uses independent web spider. (HN)

• ​You.com - Trusted Search.

• ​Devbook - Search Engine for Developers. (HN)

• ​Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)​

• ​Google's Search Quality Evaluation Guidelines​

• ​Txtai - AI-powered search engine in Rust.

• ​Jina - Deep learning-powered search framework for building cross-/multi-modal search systems (e.g. text, images, video, audio) in the cloud.

• ​Okeano - Search engine that cleans the ocean and respects your privacy.

• ​Private.sh - Search engine that cryptographically protects your privacy.

• ​Wade - Blazing fast 1kb search library.

• ​Aves API - Insanely Fast Google Search API.

• ​Vespa - Engine for low-latency computation over large data sets. (Code) (Tweet)

• ​Google Search API - Python based API for searching google web, images, calc, and currency conversion.

• ​Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version (HN)

• ​What GitHub Search Needs to Improve (2021) (HN)

• ​Lieu - Community search engine. (Code)

• ​Search with typo tolerance (2021)​

• ​Same Energy - Visual Search Engine.

• ​Reiz.IO - Large Scale Structural Source Code Search. (Code)

• ​DataHub - Generalized Metadata Search & Discovery Tool. (Web)

• ​Milli - Search through millions of documents in milliseconds.

• ​Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (2021) (In Rust)

• ​Google's Got A Secret (HN)

• ​Evaluating Search Algorithms (2021) (HN)

• ​Portal - Full Text Search Web Service.

• ​Vald - Highly Scalable Distributed Vector Search Engine. (Code) (HN)

• ​Awesome Vector Search Engine​

• ​OpenGameArt Search + Reverse Image Search - Reverse image search for pixel art. (Code) (HN)

• ​RapidFuzz - Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics.

• ​Dedupe Python Library - Python library that uses machine learning to perform fuzzy matching, deduplication and entity resolution quickly on structured data.

• ​Weaviate - Cloud-native, modular, real-time vector search engine.

• ​Internet Search Tips - Description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books.

• ​Get better at Googling (2021) (HN)

• ​Metasearch - Search aggregator for Slack, Google Docs, GitHub, and more.

• ​Quickwit - Big data search engine. (Web)

• ​How image search works at Dropbox (2021) (HN)

• ​Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2020)​

• ​Recommendations and Results Organization in Netflix Search (2021)​

• ​Full-Text Search PostgreSQL or ElasticSearch (2021)​

• ​Ask HN: Has Google search got noticably worse recently? (2021)​

• ​Pinecone - Managed Vector Similarity Search.

• ​Extreme Classification with Vector Similarity Search​