Site Search Should Be Sexy: How Swiftype Raised $1.7M

Swiftype was one of the sleepers. They'd been growing really fast but were known mostly to their users rather than to the people who talk about startups. There are quite a few of these.

Interesting. I wonder if Swiftype uses Apache Lucene&#x2F;Solr&#x2F;Nutch as backend.<p>Facebook is listed as Client. They have a contract with Microsoft (Bing) and have at least two internal search engines. One of them is the type-ahead one as explained there:<p><a href="https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=369584442130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.facebook.com&#x2F;blog.php?post=369584442130</a><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389105248919" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;note.php?note_id=389105248919</a><p>I assume FB uses Swiftype not for the main FB website, maybe the developer documentation or some PR sites. (They use(d) even some SharePoint sites for business pages).<p>EDIT: Yes, Swiftype is based on Lucene et al: <a href="http://www.quora.com/Swiftype/What-is-the-technology-stack-behind-Swiftype" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Swiftype&#x2F;What-is-the-technology-stack-b...</a>

There&#x27;s a recent interview with Swiftype founder Quin Hoxie up on Mixergy which is worth a watch. <a href="http://mixergy.com/quin-hoxie-swiftype-interview/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixergy.com&#x2F;quin-hoxie-swiftype-interview&#x2F;</a>

I swear Hacker News is inside my head. I was JUST investigating server-less (from my side) full text search engines like this over the last week. I checked out lunr.js, google custom search engine, sqlite, and a few other options. This looks great and I think this might be what I implement. Thanks!

Warning: link contains really weird and annoying &#x27;splash screen advert&#x27;. (Can we get a proper warning for URLs that abuse expectations?)

Just signed up. Was looking for something like this a few weeks ago. Seems to be exactly what I need. :)

&quot;while basic site search is simple (think adding a Google GOOG -1.13% site search toolbar to the top of your blog), good, effective site search is very, very hard&quot;<p>What does the above statement mean? AND Why doesn&#x27;t swiftype come up in techcrunch&#x27;s autocomplete search?

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