[Semaphor]

> It’s in no way mainly for logs as they claim

Where can I find more information on using it for user-facing search? The repository [0] starts with "Cloud-native search engine for observability (logs, traces, and soon metrics!)" and keeps talking about those.

[0]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

[oersted]

That just seems to be the market where search engines have the most obvious business case, Elasticsearch positioned themselves in the same way. But both are general-purpose full-text search engines perfectly capable of any serious search use-case.

Their original breakout demo was on Common Crawl: https://common-crawl.quickwit.io/

But thanks for pointing it out, I hadn't looked at it in a few months, it looks like they significantly changed their pitch in the last year. I assume they got VC money and they need to deliver now.

[AsianOtter]

But the demo does not work.

I tried "England is" and a few similar queries. It spends three seconds then shows that nothing is found.

[oersted]

I tried it once and it instantly showed no results, but then I tried it again and it returned results in <1s. Just try it with a bunch of queries, I think there's caching too so it's hard to gauge performance properly.

The blog post about the demo is from 2021 and they haven't promoted it much since. I'm surprised that they even kept it online, according to the sidebar it was ~$810/month in AWS at the time.

[fulmicoton]

Yes. We should shut down this demo. We reduced the hardware to cut down our costs. Right now it runs a ludicrously small amount of hardware.

[hovering_nox]

I would say here: Features

https://quickwit.io/docs/overview/introduction#key-features