Ask HN: Search engine for a small number of sites?

9 pointsquazar3y ago3 comments

Is there an open source search engine that I could use to index a small number of websites (think few thousands) and have the results be of quality similar to that on Yandex/Google?

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achairapart3y ago

No direct experience but I saved some links about this:

https://wiby.me/about/guide.html

https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass

https://yacy.net/

Interesting thread(s) on HN about the last one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309

jasonwcfan3y ago

Not sure about a page rank like algorithm for search but there's a lot of tools now to build an index over text with vector embeddings. Weaviate for example offers hybrid indexes with configurable weights for keyword vs semantic search.

https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/search/hybrid This might be similar to what you're looking for?

97-109-1073y ago

I would take a look at other places that run their own search - https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/

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