• Album@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Most websites have always had incredibly poor search functionality. It’s more complex than people realize and that’s why so many companies started using google search or some paid plugin for their website.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, but we figured out ways to make it work incredibly well, and then decided ads were more important than a functional search engine.

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      1 year ago

      It’s also amazing because Lucene was created over 20 years ago and made available for free. It’s an incredibly powerful full text search algorithm suitable for most website content except the largest scale. Elasticseaech was built on top of it to make it easier to use and is also available for free.

      These technologies power Wikipedia’s search, for example, and you know how much content Wikipedia has.

      My point is… There are free technologies that make search excellent.