[KNN early termination in Manticore Search](/content/blog/knn-early-termination/ "KNN early termination in Manticore Search"/index.html)

How Manticore detects when HNSW search has converged and stops early, cutting distance computations by 50-80% with minimal precision loss.

Author: Ilya Kuznetsov

Published: May 29, 2026 - 9 Min read

[The Evolution of 'More Like This'](/content/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/ "The Evolution of 'More Like This'"/index.html)

How More Like This works in classic full-text search, what embeddings change, and why this kind of lookup is more convenient inside the search engine.

Author: Sergey Nikolaev

Published: May 29, 2026 - 10 Min read

[How to Make xt850 Match xt 850](/content/blog/how-to-make-searches-like-xt850-match-xt-850/ "How to Make xt850 Match xt 850"/index.html)

A practical guide to solving glued-vs-spaced search queries like xt850 vs xt 850, with clear explanations of bigram_delimiter, second_numeric, second_has_digit, and reproducible examples.

Author: Sergey Nikolaev

Published: May 04, 2026 - 7 Min read

[How to Speed Up Phrase Search with bigram_index](/content/blog/how-to-speed-up-phrase-search-with-bigram-index/ "How to Speed Up Phrase Search with bigram_index"/index.html)

A practical guide to using bigram_index to accelerate phrase queries in Manticore Search, with clear explanations of all, first_freq, both_freq, and a reproducible manticore-load benchmark.

Author: Sergey Nikolaev

Published: May 02, 2026 - 7 Min read

[Build a Searchable Catalog with Filters, Facets, and Semantic Search](/content/blog/manticore-php-demo/ "Build a Searchable Catalog with Filters, Facets, and Semantic Search"/index.html)

A practical walkthrough of building a search app with Manticore: autocomplete, typo tolerance, filters, facets, deep pagination, semantic search, and similar-item discovery in one flow.

Author: Nick Sergeev

Published: Apr 28, 2026 - 7 Min read

[How Indexfox Built an AI Site-Search Widget on Manticore](/content/blog/how-indexfox-built-an-ai-site-search-widget-on-manticore/ "How Indexfox Built an AI Site-Search Widget on Manticore"/index.html)

Indexfox is an AI search widget that any website can drop in with a single .

Author: Dmitrii Kuzmenkov

Published: Apr 27, 2026 - 6 Min read