Eddie (Experimental): Hybrid Search for Static Sites

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 1996, I worked on one of my first real search engines: an early Java applet that indexed a few thousand documents (for 3M Healthcare if I remember right…), distributed in parallel on CD-ROM (because laptops didn’t have wireless internet back then…) and on an early intranet website. It had instant word completion, which felt revolutionary at the time, and it used an early TF-IDF index with a static offline indexing process.

Experimental on jason grey

Eddie (Experimental): Hybrid Search for Static Sites