In Search of a Faster SQLite

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SQLite is already fast. But can we make it even faster? Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge began with this question and published a paper, “Serverless Runtime / Database Co-Design With Asynchronous I/O”. They demonstrate up to a … Read more

Kagi Search API

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Why pay for a search engine

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Search advertising is becoming increasingly aggressive and harder to distinguish from organic results. In 2022 alone, search advertising spending reached a staggering 185.35 billion U.S. dollars worldwide, and this is forecast to grow by six percent annually until 2028, hitting … Read more

A search engine by and for the federal government

search.gov

Why Search.gov? Built for government — Secure, compliant, designed around the unique circumstances of government web publishing. Highly configurable — No developers required – use our easy interface to design your search experience yourself. Hands-on customer service — We’re here … Read more

Code Search Is Hard

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Tom MacWright on Apr 10, 2024 Val Town’s search functionality isn’t very good. Right now it’s built on the Postgres ILIKE functionality, which just performs a substring search: if your search term is in the code, it appears in search … Read more

A search engine in 80 lines of Python

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Home · About · Blog · Recipes · Blogroll A search engine in 80 lines of Python February 05, 2024 · 26 mins · 4718 words Last September I hopped on board with Wallapop as a Search Data Scientist and … Read more

How to Search on Encrypted Data (2013)

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6/Oct 2013 Encrypted Search This is the first part of a series on searching on encrypted data. See parts 2, 3, 4, 5. I recently finished giving a series of talks on one of my favorite topics: searching on encrypted … Read more