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-written by company selling outdated search solutions


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I think it's worth noting the potential bias, but Algolia's the furthest thing from outdated.


Outdated? How so? The primary thing Algolia is guilty of is being massively overpriced to the point it’s a non-starter for any platform with even moderate usage. But their full-text search functions quite well and is very fast.


Vector search over any corpus that fits in memory is quite fast. Hell, a naive inverted index performs quite well for 90% of tasks.




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