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thanks for the information. Speaking as someone who has worked in the search industry for many years I am surprised to see this. For me, setting up an ES server on AWS and pushing content directly into it seems pretty trivial, but I get the business analytics, dashboard etc.

The meta tags seems like a reinvention of og?

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We have been using Swiftype at SupportBee for searching the help docs - https://supportbee.com/helps. We still use ES for core application search (tickets etc) but for things like help documentation, site search etc it's hard to beat Swiftype's setup time and ease of use. The analytics is pretty useful too. Disclaimer: Swiftype is our customer as well but we used them for many months before they found out about us and signed up :)

404, guess that was https://supportbee.com/help

funny though that it shows 0 results for "supportbee"

How about scaling that ES server to 100,000+ queries a day? ;-)

We support a few og tags as well, but our goal is ultimately to be able to make very flexible search engines without code, so the person managing (say) the help section of a website can make an amazing search engine without involving engineering.

100k per day is just over 1 q/s, which shouldn't concern any scale engineer. If you take that two or three orders of magnitude higher it starts to become something the scale engineer pays attention to, otherwise, I don't see the concern with that low qps.

I get that it's cloud based, with all the elastic benefits that affords, but if I look at this from a VC perspective we have two use cases:

- the customers with their own private data that wouldn't trust two guys in a "garage" in Potrero Hill. - the customers that want a no engineering solution to providing a no-engineering solution to making a section of their website searchable. This seems pretty much covered by Google's search offerings in this area. Complete with a scale out story beyond the wildest dreams of a startup. It also has the huge benefit of a relevance engine that is best in class.

Clearly, if you have customers, I am wrong!

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