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7 Open-Source Search Engines for your Enterprise and Startups you MUST know.

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 on October 04, 2023

A search engine is a software system that finds web pages that match a web search. Search engines are important pieces of software embedded into...

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Nathan Tarbert • Oct 4 '23

I checked out Swirl, they are pretty awesome!

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 SWIRL • Oct 4 '23

Thanks Nathan

Anna Starodub • Oct 5 '23

great piece!

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 SWIRL • Oct 5 '23

thanks

Ronaldo S.A. Batista • Oct 10 '23

Swirl is awesome!

Felix • Oct 4 '23

Amazing list. Didn't knew OpenSearch and Elastic search were twins.

Yash-sudo-web • Oct 19 '23

looks amazing!!

Nevo David • Oct 4 '23

Swirl is really good!

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 SWIRL • Oct 4 '23

Thanks Nevo

Sreeharsha • Aug 9 '24

what about orama?

EchoGlobal • Oct 4 '24

Have you heard of Nutch? It is built on top of Apache Lucene. It is a great solution for scalable web crawling and data retrieval.

David Bellini • Oct 12 '23

There's also Orama Search another interesting full-text and vector search engine open source

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 SWIRL • Oct 12 '23

Orama looks interesting, but how come you'll do a search in <2KB if you're managing indexes and embeddings? Once again, the vector search part makes it hard to manage.