This is an interesting alternative compared to, say, using Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.

One caveat appears to be index size, though:

> The indices can get large. In our example index of HTML files, the index occupies about 11MB, about one-fourth the size of the original files indexed.

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Meta-observation: Whoa, the accessibility wheelchair in the lower right-hand side is unlike anything I've seen offered by a website before. It's like these people really care about user comfort. Refreshing.

It's open source:

https://github.com/ranbuch/accessibility

Very nice, thank you @meesterdude!

Submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302783

>the accessibility wheelchair in the lower right-hand side is unlike anything I've seen offered by a website before.

but they're not in a rush..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33226849

This needs a "(2003)" in the title, so that people realize how old this information is. The (last?) version of the software mentioned is archived in https://github.com/swish-e/swish-e

As a rule of thumb, I never assume a Hacker News article was recently published. XD

Lots of old gems being posted after years.

It all still works tho :)

how does is compare to e.g. xapian?