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- May 4, 2023
It looks like word stems are supported but the demo isn't set up to use it. Might be a memory issue if it's served all on-page.Not sure if it's just a limitation of the demo itself and can be mitigated/tweaked, but it's not that great of a search option if it can't parse string segments. In the "demo" section I scrolled down and picked the random word "Ticonderoga". I then tried to search for "ticond" and it returned zero results, searching for the complete word "Ticonderoga" works though. Ctrl+F is literally more functional than their demo.
The only experience I've had with this sort of thing - ingesting arbitrary documents and providing a search interface over it - was Elasticsearch, but it's written in Java and eats memory/CPU cycles for breakfast.
I've heard good things about Sphinx, but the learning curve is steep for a site built under a week.