Snapguide is a website that receives 1.5 million unique visitors per month and 2000 requests per minute across its app and web platforms. It is built using Python, MySQL, Redis, and AWS services. The document discusses Snapguide's use of Amazon CloudSearch for search, including indexing guide data, query types, result ranking factors, and offline index updating using SQS. It also covers performance considerations and ideas for future work such as expanding data domains and implementing search-based suggestions.