Site search comparison

Winnow compared to Meilisearch

Meilisearch is a friendly open-source search engine with a strong developer experience. Winnow Search is a hosted site-search service, so the crawler, page extraction, PDFs, analytics, and embed are part of the product.

Good fit

Choose Winnow Search if the job is adding search to an existing website with minimal engineering work.

Tradeoffs

Meilisearch may fit better if you want to own the index and feed it structured data from your own application.

Winnow Search is meant to be a focused offering done carefully: crawl the site, index the useful content, show what people need, and keep spending understandable.

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