# Can elastic search be used as a web search engine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 30, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-search-be-used-as-a-web-search-engine/154550 "2018-10-30T03:36:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jsandeep316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@jsandeep316](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsandeep316)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-search-be-used-as-a-web-search-engine/154550/1 "2018-10-30T03:36:47Z")
Assuming that I crawl a small subset of the web and upload the contents of the crawl to a database, can elastic search be used to retrieve and rank the contents? I would also like to do some elementary link analysis, so it would have to rank the results according to some link-based metric. I am essentially re-creating a web search engine. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-search-be-used-as-a-web-search-engine/154550/2 "2018-10-30T04:48:25Z")
Our site search SaaS offer does that basically. It's all based on elasticsearch plus specific developments so I guess we can answer that elasticsearch can be used for that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-search-be-used-as-a-web-search-engine/154550/3 "2018-11-27T04:48:33Z")
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