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Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

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·November 17, 2025
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mobeigi

Great read. It makes you wonder how heavily optimised the tokenizers used by popular search enginea truly are.

eduction

I completely agree with the insight that full text search has been complexified. People seem to want to jump straight to clustering or other enterprise level things.

I also appreciate the moxie of getting in there and building it yourself.

Myself, I reach for Lucene. Then you don’t need to build all this yourself if you don’t want. It lives in a dir on disk. True, it’s a separate database, but one optimized for this problem.

aorloff

This was the solution I was thinking about, but I thought, well that's the way someone would have done it 20 years ago