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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 14-May-2021 01:10:14 EDT lnxw48a1
   Not a general search engine, and no public instance provided, but “MeiliSearch”:{https://www.meilisearch.com/} say they are an open source self-hostable search API.
   
   I don’t think you’d use it as a general search engine, but more as something integrated into your site. So “Dog Buddy Magazine Online” might use MeiliSearch to let visitors seek out articles by breed, puppy or adult, and other factors relevant to the sites readers.
   
   License: MIT. See https://blog.meilisearch.com/oss-paradigm/
   Paid plan: I haven’t seen it, but I just discovered the software and site a few minutes ago; maybe they’re charging for support.
   
   Anyway, it is interesting. They seem to compete partly with “ElasticSearch”:{https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/} (and maybe a little bit with #YaCy’s stand-alone mode).
   1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 14-May-2021 10:33:02 EDT musicman

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      Are they built on Lucene or completely separate? There's also #ApacheSolr in that space
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 14-May-2021 11:38:57 EDT lnxw48a1

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         @musicman I just heard of #MeiliSearch last night, so I did not do any deep diving. I know that #YaCy uses #Solr, but I do not know if it always did.
         1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-May-2021 19:57:48 EDT musicman

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            might not be exhaustive, but it's not listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Lucene
         2. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-May-2021 19:58:33 EDT musicman

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            well, it's obviously not exhaustive since #YaCy is not listed