I just made a couple of searches with teclis. I have to say, it's not bad. It's clearly not complete and I get several empty searches. But the content of the results are of higher quality than what I get with Google or DDG. Nice work!

Thanks. The index is tiny and it is just a proof of concept of what a single person can do with technologies available nowadays. I felt it is better for it to return zero results than bad results.

gk1

> The index is tiny

What was the largest index you've had on Faiss? That seems to affect whether people think of it as more than adequate or terribly inadequate.

m3at

Not the author, but at work we've had in the hundreds of millions. Faiss can certainly scale.

If you do have a tiny index and want to try Google's version of vector search (as an alternative to Faiss), you can easily run ScaNN locally [1] (linked in the article, that's the underlying tech). On small scale I had better perf with ScaNN

[1] https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...

freediver

Thanks for mentioning it. Just tried it and it seems to be faster than Faiss indeed on smaller scale searches.

leobg

There's also hnswlib[1], which has supposedly lower memory requirements and allows for adding new vectors to an existing index.

[1]: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/