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by zelly 2176 days ago
Elastic Search

Lucene

Sphinx

Solr

And thousands of other ones made by hobbyists, but those are the mature (as in since the 90s) ones. For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx.

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For a quick search engine it's hard to beat Sphinx. I especially love that you can just point it at a database and give it a query and it will just work.
> For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx

Actually Manticore Search (fork of Sphinx)