[er4hn]

I actually mourn the loss of it. It felt so much better than any other accursed on-prem search solution I've seen since.

[cyberpunk]

fastsearch was pretty good before Microsoft bought it.. Elastic is good enough.

[phatskat]

> Elastic is good enough.

Probably the most praise I’ve ever seen about Elastic.

I do respect the amount of power and utility, and it’s definitely a workhorse, but it’s like a horse with one human leg, a bad eye, extra bones but also not enough bones, and a French accent but only knows Korean. Once you get used to the fact that you can’t do what you intend to, but you can do what elastic wants, it becomes a lot more manageable.

[Workaccount2]

The box might have been awful, but the sigh of relief when seeing a website was using it was wonderful.

[ycombinatrix]

I don't think GP is talking about the "search with google" box on third party sites. They're talking about a physical on-prem search server (box) that google used to distribute.