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minisearch
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Character and Subsector generators for Classic Traveller, with TAS Forms!
I wrote an online catalog a while back (and I need to get back on adding graphics and products at some point). It’s written using Eleventy and the minisearch library. The source and data are available on Github if you want to see how I did things. I’m not a professional web designer either, but it was a fun project.
- What is your go to client-side fuzzy searching library?
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Meilisearch v1.0 – the open-source Rust alternative to Algolia and Elasticsearch
You could have a look at https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/
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What do you use for site search? Custom built solution? Meilisearch? Algolia?
If you're dealing with thousands of records or less, searching titles and summaries rather than long bodies of text, I recommend looking into client-side solutions. Nothing beats the responsiveness of search-as-you-type entirely on the client side. It can be fairly sophisticated fulltext search. For example, I've built had great success with MiniSearch.
- MiniSearch – fuzzy match search in TypeScript
- Minisearch: Tiny, powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser, Node
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Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript
I quite enjoy minisearch[1] which is also 0 dependencies, actively maintained, and I expect would work well in a worker environment. I dropped it into a service worker and plugged it with a simple point in polygon script to enable geosearch for a recent project[2] and it played v. nicely.
[1] https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch
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I highly recommend the Omnisearch plugin.
No magic here, the underlying engine is Minisearch, which uses the BM25 algorithm (the de facto standard among search libraries). Omnisearch adds a magic sauce during indexing by converting notes into custom objects, with the following fields: - body (the plain markdown text) - filename & yaml aliases - level 1 headers - level 2 headers - level 3 headers
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For lovers of instant search and Ctrl+K menus, we made an open-source tool to add that to your website in 2 steps: 1. Enter your URL 2. Add code snippet to <head>. Links and code in comments!
It's actually really simple! Minisearch did most of the heavy lifting so all we needed to do was the crawling, storing and UI etc. I'd check that out if you're interested in the search part!
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I made a tool to add instant search to your site in 2 steps: 1. Enter your URL 2. Add code snippet to <head>. Links in comments!
We use MiniSearch for searching, while fast-fuzzy is used for highlighting of detected search terms.
Typesense
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FlowDiver: The Road to SSR - Part 1
Disregarding props-drilling technique in favor of a more reliable and elegant solution we looked for inspiration elsewhere. Another project of ours .find was using Typesense/Algolia components, which looked a bit like black-box/magic, but at the same time provided a clean approach to build complex and highly customizable solutions.
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Release Radar · April 2024 Edition: Major updates from the open source community
Have you ever tried to look up something, only to realise your search engine doesn't recognise your typos? Typesense to the rescue! It's a fast, typo-tolerant search engine built for an easier browsing experience. The latest version comes with new features such as built-in conversational search, image search, voice search, analytics, and more. Dive into the release notes for the full list of changes and enhancements.
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Website Search Hurts My Feelings
There are actually plenty of non-ES products that are way easier to integrate and tune (and get better results with less effort).
- Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense)
- Algolia
- Google Programmable Search Engine (https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/)
- Remote Machine Learning and Searching on a Raspberry Pi 5
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Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
Typesense - Open Source Alternative to Algolia
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DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone
If you like your penny take a look at Typesense https://typesense.org/ - nothing to complain here. Especially nothing complain about pricing.
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Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs
I work on Typesense [1] (historically considered an open source alternative to Algolia).
We then launched vector search in Jan 2023, and just last week we launched the ability to generate embeddings from within Typesense.
You'd just need to send JSON data, and Typesense can generate embeddings for your data using OpenAI, PaLM API, or built-in models like S-BERT, E-5, etc (running on a GPU if you prefer) [2]
You can then do a hybrid (keyword + semantic) search by just sending the search keywords to Typesense, and Typesense will automatically generate embeddings for you internally and return a ranked list of keyword results weaved with semantic results (using Rank Fusion).
You can also combine filtering, faceting, typo tolerance, etc - the things Typesense already had.
[1] https://github.com/typesense/typesense
[2] https://typesense.org/docs/0.25.0/api/vector-search.html
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Creating an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL
For something small with a minimal footprint, I'd recommend Typesense. https://github.com/typesense/typesense
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Obsidian Publish full text search
I haven’t used Publish, but I’d assume you could use something like https://typesense.org/ to index and search the vault.
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DynamoDB search options
A cheaper option would be to use https://typesense.org. You can use DynamoDb streams to automatically load records. It has worked well for me.
What are some alternatives?
flexsearch - Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow
lunr.js - A bit like Solr, but much smaller and not as bright
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
orama - 🌌 Fast, dependency-free, full-text and vector search engine with typo tolerance, filters, facets, stemming, and more. Works with any JavaScript runtime, browser, server, service!
Apache Solr - Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software
itemsjs - Extremely fast faceted search engine in JavaScript - lightweight, flexible, and simple to use
meilisearch-laravel-scout - MeiliSearch integration for Laravel Scout
obsidian-omnisearch - A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing.
loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
regex-benchmark - It's just a simple regex benchmark of different programming languages.
sonic - 🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.