A search engine in 80 lines of Python February 05, 2024 · 26 mins · 4718 words Last September I hopped on board with Wallapop as a Search Data Scientist and since then part of my work has been working with Solr, an open source search engine based on Lucene. I’ve got the basics of how a search engine works, but I had this itch to understand it even better. So, I rolled up my sleeves and decided to build one from scratch. Now, let’s talk goals. Ever heard of the “Small Website Discoverability Cris...