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Meilisearch Blog https://www.meilisearch.com/blog Tutorials, product updates, and insights from the Meilisearch team en Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:02:04 GMT https://www.meilisearch.com/logo.png Meilisearch Blog https://www.meilisearch.com/blog <![CDATA[Agentic search: building search tools for AI agents with Meilisearch and the Vercel AI SDK]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/agentic-search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/agentic-search Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Laurent Cazanove ai using-meilisearch <![CDATA[10 best OpenSearch alternatives: full comparison in 2026]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/opensearch-alternatives https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/opensearch-alternatives Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[10 best Lucene alternatives: full comparison in 2026]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/lucene-alternatives https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/lucene-alternatives Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[13 RAG chunking strategies for better retrieval]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-chunking-strategies https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-chunking-strategies Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[Meilisearch vs. Manticore: Use cases, features, pricing, & more]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/meilisearch-vs-manticore https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/meilisearch-vs-manticore Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[RAG for medical data: improving healthcare AI accuracy]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-medical-data https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-medical-data Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[What is context distillation in AI & how does it improve LLM efficiency?]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/context-distillation https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/context-distillation Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[Query rewriting for RAG: how to improve retrieval accuracy]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/query-rewrite-rag https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/query-rewrite-rag Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[How CarJager runs millions of vehicle searches every month on Meilisearch, with zero DevOps]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/carjager-vehicle-search-zero-devops https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/carjager-vehicle-search-zero-devops Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin customers <![CDATA[A practical guide to search relevance metrics and evaluation]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/search-relevance-metrics https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/search-relevance-metrics Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[RAG guardrails: the foundation of trustworthy AI applications]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-guardrails https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-guardrails Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[RAG for structured data: benefits, challenges, examples, & more]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-structured-data https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-structured-data Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[RAG reranking explained: better context, better answers]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-reranking https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-reranking Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[How RAG for customer support improves accuracy at scale]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-customer-support https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-customer-support Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[AI-powered workplace search: how it works, benefits, and more]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/ai-powered-workplace-search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/ai-powered-workplace-search Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[Launch Week wrap-up: everything that shipped in five days, April 2026]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/launch-week-q1-2026-wrap-up https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/launch-week-q1-2026-wrap-up Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin company-news release <![CDATA[Conversational search, out of the box: Meilisearch Chat in Cloud UI]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/chat-ui https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/chat-ui Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin company-news release <![CDATA[Scale without limits: introducing sharding & replication in Meilisearch Cloud]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/sharding-replication https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/sharding-replication Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin company-news release <![CDATA[RAG-as-a-Service: what it is, use cases, providers & more]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-as-a-service https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-as-a-service Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[How Touchless powers instant, scalable vehicle search for large dealer groups]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/touchless-powers-scalable-vehicle-search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/touchless-powers-scalable-vehicle-search Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin customers <![CDATA[Self-RAG explained: how self-reflective retrieval boosts AI outputs]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/self-rag https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/self-rag Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[The Good, the Bad, and the Leaky: jemalloc, bumpalo, and mimalloc in Meilisearch]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/memory-leak-investigation https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/memory-leak-investigation Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Clément Renault engineering <![CDATA[Roadmap roundup: where Meilisearch is heading]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/2026-march-roadmap https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/2026-march-roadmap Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen state-of-search company-news <![CDATA[How to build and optimize RAG in AI for reliable answers]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-in-ai https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-in-ai Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[How Samtec modernizes product search with Meilisearch]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/samtec-modernizes-search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/samtec-modernizes-search Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin customers <![CDATA[Patching LMDB: how we made Meilisearch’s vector store 3× faster]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/3xfaster-vector-store https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/3xfaster-vector-store Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Clément Renault engineering <![CDATA[Search-as-a-Service explained: how it works, providers, and more]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/search-as-a-service https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/search-as-a-service Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[Meilisearch March updates]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/March-2026-updates https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/March-2026-updates Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin company-news release <![CDATA[What is an index file and why does it matter in modern computing?]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/what-is-an-index-file https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/what-is-an-index-file Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[What are specialty search engines and why do they matter?]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/what-are-speciality-search-engines https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/what-are-speciality-search-engines Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[Proximity search: Improve relevance & deliver smarter results]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/proximity-search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/proximity-search Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[The challenge isn't connecting to an LLM. It's figuring out what people actually mean.]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/intent-understanding https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/intent-understanding Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thomas Payet ai <![CDATA[Powering the generative AI era: how Scenario scales asset discovery with Meilisearch]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/scenario https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/scenario Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin customers <![CDATA[Designing effective typeahead search for faster, smarter UX]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typeahead-search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typeahead-search Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[How document indexing works, methods, implementation, & more]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/document-indexing https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/document-indexing Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[Security update: Meilisearch v1.34.1 fixes an SSRF vulnerability ]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/CVE-update-Jan-2026 https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/CVE-update-Jan-2026 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Louis Dureuil company-news <![CDATA[What is text clustering? A complete guide]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/text-clustering https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/text-clustering Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[Meilisearch January updates]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/January-2026-updates https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/January-2026-updates Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin company-news release <![CDATA[How to build a search engine: A complete guide for developers]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/how-to-build-search-engine https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/how-to-build-search-engine Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin state-of-search <![CDATA[Knowledge graph vs. vector database for RAG: which is best?]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/knowledge-graph-vs-vector-database-for-rag https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/knowledge-graph-vs-vector-database-for-rag Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for business: Full guide]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-business https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/rag-for-business Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[Typesense pricing in 2026: what it costs and how Meilisearch compares]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen state-of-search <![CDATA[Typesense review: Choosing between flexibility and simplicity for your search needs]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-review https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-review Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen state-of-search <![CDATA[Understanding hybrid search RAG for better AI answers]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/hybrid-search-rag https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/hybrid-search-rag Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai state-of-search <![CDATA[Elasticsearch pricing: Is it worth the price or consider Meilisearch? October 2025]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-pricing https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-pricing Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen state-of-search <![CDATA[Naive RAG vs. advanced RAG: What are the differences?]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/naive-rag-vs-advanced-rag https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/naive-rag-vs-advanced-rag Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Maya Shin ai <![CDATA[Elasticsearch review: Why developers are choosing Meilisearch for simplicity in 2026]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-review https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-review Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen state-of-search <![CDATA[I’m a developer who vibe codes – and you should, too]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/vibe-coding https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/vibe-coding Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen <![CDATA[Elasticsearch vs Qdrant (vs Meilisearch): Which search solution actually fits your needs in 2026?]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-vs-qdrant https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-vs-qdrant Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Quentin de Quelen state-of-search <![CDATA[Retrieve and gain: Three RAG use-case patterns you can ship today]]> https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/retrieve-and-gain https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/retrieve-and-gain Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Luis Serrano ai