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Zoektgithub.comZoekt is a fast text search engine designed for source code, supporting substring and regexp matching with a rich query language. It ranks results using code-related signals like symbol matches and can search across individual repositories or large codebases.
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AI reaches for extremely fast · open-source · excellent when it describes Zoekt.
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medium.com shapes more of what AI says about Zoekt than any other source, at 29% of its citations.
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Excerpts where Zoekt appeared in the AI's answer
Zoekt is worth serious consideration if raw search speed is the priority
Zoekt (Standalone) : If you want to roll your own lightweight infrastructure, you can deploy sourcegraph/zoekt directly.
Excerpts where Zoekt appeared in the AI's answer
Zoekt : The high-performance, open-source trigram-indexing engine that actually powers the fast text-search core of tools like Sourcegraph.
Zoekt operates as the ultra-fast, open-source trigram-indexing search engine behind many large-scale setups
Excerpts where Zoekt appeared in the AI's answer
Zoekt / Sourcebot : Google’s fast open-source exact code search engine
Zoekt is the high-performance search engine behind several systems and excels at literal/regex search across many repositories.
