The document discusses developing website search capabilities in Python. It provides an overview of typical search engine components like indexing, analyzing, and searching. It then compares two Python search libraries - Pylucene and Whoosh. Benchmark tests on indexing, committing, and searching a 1GB dataset showed Whoosh to outperform Pylucene in speed. The document recommends designing search as an independent, pluggable component and considers Whoosh and Pylucene as good options for rapid development and integration into Python web projects.