beir
Searx
beir | Searx | |
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8 | 154 | |
1,388 | 13,152 | |
4.0% | - | |
4.2 | 7.7 | |
about 2 months ago | 8 months ago | |
Python | Python | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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beir
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On building a semantic search engine
The BEIR project might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir/wiki/Leaderboard
- BEIR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Information Retrieval
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Benefits of hybrid search
Custom datasets can also be evaluated using this method as specified in this link. This article and the associated benchmarks script can be reused to evaluate what method works best on your data.
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Meilisearch vs. Elasticsearch
> Meilisearch focuses on simplicity, relevancy, and performance.
> excellent relevance out of the box
> if ease of use, performance, and relevancy are important to you, Meilisearch was made for you
Is there a benchmark that shows Meilisearch outperforming Elasticsearch in terms of relevance score? I couldn't find Meilisearch listed on https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir.
- Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
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An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
There are actually benchmarks that allow measuring search relevancy objectively, e.g. BEIR[1]. Manticore Search team did an effort to make a PR to include it to the list. The results are here [2]. Unfortunately the BEIR team seems to be too busy to review a whole pile of PRs including about Vespa. Nevertheless it would be nice to have both Meilisearch and Typesense there too since it's interesting what performance those non-tf-idf based search engines would show compared to BM25-based and vector search engines.
[1] https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir
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Manticore Search: Elasticsearch Alternative
True! Here's a pull request to BEIR to compare Manticore with Elasticsearch in terms of relevance https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir/pull/92. Spoiler: in this test Manticore provides better relevance than Elasticsearch in average. Of course you can tune both further and Elasticsearch now has KNN which when combined with BM25 can give even better relevance. In general I would say for most users the results quality in terms of full-text relevance is about the same in Elasticseach and Manticore.
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Manticore: a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++ with a 21-year history
But there's for example BEIR that compared BM25 vs state of the art ML language models and it turned out BM25 is in average better than all of them unless you rerank top 100 results from Elasticsearch using the language models. With Manticore you can get even better relevance than with Elasticsearch. We made a pull-request to BEIR to demonstrate that https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_ZyYkPJ_K0st9FJBrjbZqX14nmCCPVlE_y3a_y5KkYI/edit#gid=0
Searx
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Challenging projects every programmer should try
I think searx was largely built by a single person.
https://github.com/searx/searx
- Searx is no longer maintained
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I want to organize my few TBs of data in a nice way
I use Recoll to index all of it. Recoll WebUI exposes an API, which I plugged into Searx.
- Now you can search on Google for free: Solution with API
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Google Removes Sort by Date options in search
The quality of Google search results has been awful for many years now, but if you still want to use it, the only usable way is via a frontend like Searx[1]. Using any of Google's frontends for any of their services is an exercise in frustration from dodging ads and fighting their hostile UI.
[1]: https://github.com/searx/searx
- Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
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Any way to create RSS of google?
RSS-Bridge has a Google search adapter. You can also fake it with Searx (which offers RSS feeds of search results).
- How is everyone doing with most of reddit gone?
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Local self ask
I've recently wondered how effective local models were at chaining together thoughts as proposed in https://ofir.io/self-ask.pdf. Turns out they are indeed capable of doing so while also creating reasonable chains of thoughts that are easily as good as OpenAI's models. To make it completely free to run I used SearX running inside a Docker container with a second model curating the search results for the main model to get answers from the web.
What are some alternatives?
columnar - Manticore Columnar Library
searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
hub
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
manticoresearch - Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK soon
whoogle-search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
ui - https://db-benchmarks.com website
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow
sonic - 🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
tape - Tasks Assessing Protein Embeddings (TAPE), a set of five biologically relevant semi-supervised learning tasks spread across different domains of protein biology.
searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. This is a fork of SearXNG used by searx.tiekoetter.com