search engine Archives

Heatseeker – general-purpose fuzzy selector

Heatseeker is a rewrite of selecta, a general-purpose fuzzy selector.

SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically.

Solr is a popular, stand alone, fast, open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.

ElasticSearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed RESTful search engine and analytics engine for the cloud.

MeiliSearch is a RESTful search API. A ready-to-go solution for everyone who wants a fast and relevant search experience for their end-users.

Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library. It is a full text search engine library for programmers.

SQL Phrase Index (Sphinx) is an open source software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It is written in C++.

Typesense is an open source, typo tolerant search engine that delivers fast and relevant results out-of-the-box.

Manticore Search is an easy to use open source fast database for search. It bills itself as a good alternative for Elasticsearch.

Debian decided to feature DuckDuckGo, a more privacy-focused search engine, as their default one