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Apr 8, 2018 Jekyll search Algolia ElasticSearch

Search on a static website

When I moved my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, I was faced with the problem of letting users search content in it. I didn’t give it much thought and used Google Custom Search Engine. In this post, I’d like to review possible options to search static sites, and review each of them.

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Feb 24, 2013 search solr

Solr overview from a beginner's point of view

I’ve recently begun diving into Search Engines in general and Solr in particular. This is my understanding of it so far. Why Solr? It isn’t really feasible to execute blazing fast search queries on very big SQL databases for 2 different reasons. The first reason comes SQL databases favoring lack of radiancy over performance. Basically, you’d need to use JOIN in your SELECT. The second reason is about the nature of data in documents: it’s essentially unstructured plain

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