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Meilisearch is a game changer! The new AI-powered hybrid search makes it incredibly fast and efficient for developers. I'm excited to see how it can improve search results with both semantic and full-text capabilities. Definitely a step forward in making search smarter and faster!
Meilisearch, as it is, is great. However, if you have the chance, make it self-hosted. Meilisearch Cloud is just a bunch of incompetent people unable to solve any issues. Even when they solve something, the problem tends to occur again. Even if you pay for a better instance, it seems they keep the parameters as low as possible, causing multiple problems. If you don't want to end up with search freezes lasting for three hours frequently, don't go with Meilisearch Cloud.
Meili made finding what I needed easier and light speed with ultra-relevant results. As a user, I can confidently say that they have revolutionized my search experience!
The product is working like a charm and the team provides a wonderfull support.
Meilisearch is a best of breed state of the art full test search engine written in Rust, fully Open Source, but with a commercial offering. It is evidently a great replacement for Elastic when you need fulltext - but even more so of Algolia. And coupled with something like Crawl4AI or one of the other crawlers it can give you huge mileage as a general purpose search engine. Simple. Fast. Robust. Conflict of interest statement: I have none. It's just an incredibly lovely piece of software. The API is pretty, usable and very easy to understand and the client libs are top-notch too (full disclosure: I only used the Golang, Python and JS ones). For the vector retrieval side of the house: with Meilisearch it is basically a setting on an Index. That’s it. You tell it which embedding model / service to use, you give it a URL and an API key. It is going to take care of everything by itself. Nothing to do. No pipelines. No Llama index. No langchain. Nothing. A setting. Actually wrote a full-blown medium post just to say how cool this is. I have been using Elastic since version 0.2 and as far as FT generally... I kinda have 30 years of track record in choosing winners. Ask me about CPL from AOL one of these days.
