Samtec, a global electronics manufacturer handling 1.5 million monthly searches across a complex product catalog, migrated from their previous search vendor to Meilisearch. Key pain points included poor relevancy for technical component searches, latency issues, limited ranking control, and high costs. The migration was phased — starting with content search, then product search — and completed in a few weeks. Results include near-instant search responses across four regional instances, over 1 million indexed documents, improved relevancy, and better cost efficiency. Future plans include faceted filtering for parametric product search and LLM-powered semantic search integration.
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The challenge: search that couldn’t keep upThe solution: a focused, developer-first search engineImplementation: simple, fast, and low-frictionThe results: performance without disruptionConclusion: a search foundation built for scale59 Impressions