Thank you very much for sharing this project. After digging around, I found this blog post of yours to be the most insightful into the technical details about the search engine, https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/searchmysite.net-buildin...
Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
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Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
#52I love the simplecity of https://pagefind.app/
Interesting, is that a more complete variation of fuse.js? (Just pluged-in fuse.js into my static jekyll blog)
Pagefind uses an index that is created ahead of time and stored as numerous files on a static site. It then downloads just the part of the index needed to complete the search. This means that you can search vastly more data than could be loaded onto a browser.
Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the site, the funding comes from its "Search as a Service" feature[0], where anybody can pay them in order to have a search service focused on their site (which does not have to be in the public index and thus doesn't have to be personal/independent). So, in the sense that the funding (aims to) comes from larger companies, you are correct. It's not VC, but it does seem like it could end up relying on pay…
That too, but I was referring to the sites in the search themselves. They are not independents but in the pay of someone else if they're not generating revenue. As someone with a commercial digital garden with ads (and a $3/mo sub for the ad-adverse) I like to point out the tension in that whenever possible
Not necessarily. As a counterpoint, I have a site (https://www.automidiflip.com/>, which I posted to HN on launch 8 years ago[0], which provides a service and does not have (and has never had) any ads whatsoever. (It inserts a reference to automidiflip.com in the MIDIs it creates as a credit, but no ads in the sense that most people mean.)
Granted, it's a niche service, but over the past year it's still been used to flip MIDIs about 23 times a day on average, so it's definitely not unknown. I don't see any need to monetise it, though.