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Search Engine ↔ Software to search/query/sort/filter data from DB

aka Search

Web Crawler​

🤖 Program to systematically browse & index all public web pages (for Search Engine)

SEO​

(Design Pattern) to optimize Web Page max exposure to Search Engine's Web Crawler

Prefix

Group

Highlight

Facet

Sorting​

feat to Promo or serve Geo-Search for specific users

Bing

Ranking

Multi-tenant Search

to Search nearest-neighbour via ML vector model

Typo Tolerance for Search to allow approx match to string via Edit Distance Algo

Source: typesense.org/learn/fuzzy

to send multiple searches in a single HTTP Request, to reduce RTT Latency

Indices​

multiple collections of search

aim for <50ms for instant feedback with search results

Typo Tolerance​

ability to handle butterfingers

Thesaurus​

to return same results for equivalent words

Search Engine API

Other upcoming search apis

Solr

DuckDuckGo​

mostly FOSS Search Engine

Source: github.com/duckduckgo

References​

  1. SEO ↔ (Design Pattern) to optimize Web Page max exposure to Search Engine's Web Crawler

  2. Web Crawler ↔ 🤖 Program to systematically browse & index all public web pages (for Search Engine)

  3. Algolia ↔ $$$ Online API Search Engine Proprietary SaaS Host & Analytics via RESTful API - $$$ charge by ANY operation or # records ☠

  4. typesense ↔ FOSS ⚡🔍Search Engine X-lang/X-plat Client API - free to self-host

  5. Search-as-a-Service ↔ Search Engine Sass

  6. Geo-Search ↔ to Search & sort records by UA lat/lng proximity

  7. Vector Search ↔ to Search nearest-neighbour via ML vector model

  8. ElasticSearch ↔ powerful Search Engine API notoriously hard to set up?! GP high config can do everything but complex

  9. DuckDuckGo ↔ mostly FOSS Search Engine

  10. Fuzzy Search ↔ Typo Tolerance for Search to allow approx match to string via Edit Distance Algo

  11. SERP ↔ Search Engine Results Page