It's amazing to think IndexTank (and similar API's) haven't completely taken over the startup world yet. I hacked on a few things with their API awhile back be

It's amazing to think IndexTank (and similar API's) haven't completely taken over the startup world yet. I hacked on a few things with their API awhile back because of my experience integrating meaningful search into rails, and the time it took to sign up, read the API docs, and implement the code was way less than even beginning to setup Sphinx, or Solr, or whatever other masochistic delight's waiting to be released on programmers next. In the vision I have for the world, low-level stuff like real-time search will be pushed off onto API's exactly like IndexTank, and programmers will go on to solve much more interesting problems precisely because they can take it for granted.