Google VS Xapian

Google Reviews

1. Moniza    

   3 months ago
   Exploring Google: A comprehensive review of the search giant

   Google has been an integral part of my digital life for many years. Its search engine is unparalleled in its ability to fine relevant information quickly and accurately. The user-friendly interface and wide range of services make it a go- to for everything from email to navigation.

   🏁 Competitors: Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo

   👍 Pros:    Google's search engine consistently delivers highly relevant results

   👎 Cons:    Google's data collection practices have raised privacy concerns among users, as the company collects vast amounts of personal information for targeted advertising.
2. Maham    

   6 months ago
   My Search Companion

   Google is the most reliable source for me to find the correct information. Its user-friendly interface and speedy results make searching much easier. From answers to random questions and finding locations, Google has never let me down. Its the first app I turn to when I need information. Highly recommended

   👍 Pros:    Feature rich|Speedy performance|Intuitive user interface

   👎 Cons:    Minor glitches|Ads
3. The Lead Market    

   over 1 year ago
   Best Search Engine

   Best Search Engine

Xapian Reviews

Google mentions (3692)

• Selenium and AI: UI Validations with AI

  WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup(); ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); options.addArguments("--headless"); // Setting headless mode options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // GPU hardware acceleration isn't useful in headless mode options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080"); // Set the window size WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options); ... - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• Ever Wondered What Happens When You Type google.com in your browser?

  If you’re still reading, I’ll assume you want to know more. We will get a little more technical (Not too much, hopefully). When you type google.com into your browser, your browser needs to know Google’s address. Address?, yes websites live at specific addresses. You can think of the internet as a network of roads for that link computers together. If you wanted to go to the mall, you would get on the road and... - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• How to scrape a website with Python (Beginner tutorial)

  Url = 'https://google.com' Response = requests.get(url). - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Google has another secret browser accessible by a link

  But you can open links in messages. So put https://google.com in a message and open it. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• The basics of WebDev'in: Client/Server Architecture

  What you are seeing is a common representation of "you using your browser(Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari etc..)". Let's say you are searching down the internet for images of cute baby cats. To satisfy your eager you could go to https://google.com and in the search bar type "cute baby cats" and click on the "images button" to see images, not text. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

Xapian mentions (7)

• Making a huge collection of PDF's searchable (They are OCR'd already)

  Recoll is free/open source (GPL) that can index PDFs and search them very quickly. It uses Xapian under the hood. I have over 165,000 documents indexed on an old laptop running Linux and can query them all in a split second. Source: 7 months ago

• An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM

  + xapian which has been around a while, and while gpl licensed, is quite capable https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

  Tangentially related if you need search without the clustering and high availability story of elastic search and friends I highly recommend Xapian. Its like the SQLite of search. Single library that provides the basic set of features you would expect in a quality search experience: facets, ranked search, boolean operators, stemming etc etc. https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Need CLI tool that can handle large txt files and another tool that can conduct a lightning fast search of disk files.

  For fast searching, it usually requires indexing the files in question. There are a number of text-file indexing solutions, many of which use xapian, sphinx, or lucene/solr under the hood. Based on conditions (watching files/directories, cron jobs, new-mail triggers, etc), they'll add/remove files to the index, and you can then use a corresponding command to compose queries across that data. If it's indexed, it... Source: about 2 years ago

• Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

  There is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago