Developer builds dependency-free Python search engine using only standard library

A developer created SwiftSearch, a fully functional local search engine built entirely on Python 3.14's standard library, with no third-party packages required. The project was submitted to the Zero Dependency Hackathon 2026 and aimed to replace common tools like Elasticsearch, NLTK, and FastAPI without any pip installs. SwiftSearch uses a collections.defaultdict-based inverted index for fast full-text retrieval and a simple four-term linear scoring formula instead of complex BM25 ranking parameters. Unicode tokenization is handled by the built-in unicodedata module, while http.server replaces dedicated web frameworks for serving the API and static assets. The project demonstrates that Python's standard library alone can support a fast, embeddable search engine suitable for use cases like searching local markdown files or documentation.