AI BriefingWe Built a Search Engine
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Replit built its own native search engine that quickly finds content among over 100 million Repls and code, and has rolled it out to all users.
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Replit has built a Replit native search engine that helps users find what they're looking for among over 100 million Repls in under 30 seconds. Previously, search only worked if the name of a Repl you owned matched exactly, causing 80% of users who used the search feature to drop off.
The new search engine provides results across a variety of categories:
- Repls, templates, code, users, community content, docs, tags
Technically, the frontend and backend were built using Next.js (React), Express, and GraphQL. For the search engine itself, they adopted Elasticsearch, which is reliable for large-scale data processing, and use a data pipeline built with Apache Spark to convert data from BigQuery or Google Cloud Storage into a search index and upload it.
Going forward, they plan to expand the feature to support code search across every file in every Repl.
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