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probstyesterday at 7:44 AM1 replyview on HN

We are working on our two site-search search engines Monocle Search [0] and SearchCue [1]. The former is squarely aimed at people using Squarespace, whereas our newer offering SearchCue is aimed at anyone with a site that wants to add search.

We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling and indexing of pages, most common office documents and PDFs, run OCR and feature extraction of images you might have, offer typeahead search with the aim of giving you providing answers as fast as you can type, as well as more classic agentic/conversational ai search.

There have been quite a number of interesting optimization challenges to solve in case anyone is interested. We have search nodes distributed around the globe to provide the lowest possible latency regardless of where the end-user sits.

We are also working on some other smaller side projects, but they aren't quite ready to launch yet.

[0]: https://monocle-search.com

[1]: https://searchcue.com

[2]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy


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chickensongyesterday at 11:06 PM

What drove you away from Meilisearch?