MeiliSearch is a RESTful search API. It aims to be a ready-to-go solution for everyone who wants a fast and relevant search experience for their end-users.
It provides an out-of-the-box web interface in which you can test MeiliSearch interactively.
MeiliSearch is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Highly customizable.
- Requires very little configuration to be installed.
- Instant Search (answers < 50 milliseconds): Priority is given to fast answers for smooth search experience.
- Search as you type (prefix search): Results are updated on each keystroke. To make this possible, we use a prefix-search.
- Typo tolerance: Understands typographical errors and misspelling.
- Tokenization.
- English, Kanji and Latin based languages.
- Return the whole document: The entire document is returned upon search.
- Highly customizable search and indexation:
- Custom ranking: Customize the relevancy of the search engine and the ranking of the search results.
- Stop words: Ignore common non-relevant words like of or the.
- Highlights: Highlighted search results in documents
- Ability to create synonyms for a better search experience.
- RESTful API.
- Friendly web interface: Integrated web interface in MeiliSearch that allows to try the search engine out during development.
Website: www.meilisearch.com/docs
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Meili
License: MIT License
MeiliSearch is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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Does anybody know of a easy linux drop-in replacement for me to create a new internet search engine (just for me and my friends or something more public even)?
I’ve been actually searching for such a non-google search engine app of some sort for years (since Y2k?)