Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia

Yes, you can index any content as long as it is parsable. You can easily plug a new PDF parser and start indexing your PDF articles...

Yeah I'm pretty confused as to the use case. How does it allow researchers to "experiment with state-of-the-art techniques" or enable "rapid development"?

While poor search recall is a bit ironic for the name of a search engine, I guess it's because Antonio has studied at the University of Pisa and later worked as researcher for the CNR institute for research, again in Pisa. (Me too, hi!).

We rely on different user intents. Search for "PISA engine" or "PISA search" and you will find this tool and not the city. Being found by the keyword `PISA` on Google is not necessarily our main goal. We are not selling anything, the community is just building a product for IR research. We are willing to gain interest from skilled people in the end. I don't think it really matters if there are `news` about the city, we are not targeting the news anyway.

Also, think about `Windows` or `Go`, there is no way you get confused once these words are in the right context.