I built a search engine over 1,600+ cybersecurity articles — here's what I actually learned

A year ago I had a problem: 1,600+ cybersecurity articles spread across a Go backend, and a search bar that returned garbage.

The standard MySQL LIKE '%keyword%' approach was embarrassing. Searching "pentest Active Directory" returned articles that happened to contain the word "pentest" on one side and "Directory" somewhere else — totally unrelated content ranked first.

So I rebuilt it from scratch. Here's the honest version of what happened.

The stack I chose (and why)

My backend is Go Fiber. I needed something that:

I built a search engine over 1,600+ cybersecurity articles — here's what I actually learned

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