Search Engine v0.2.0

v0.2.0

This release adds optional Gemini-powered query assistance and improves reliability when the Gemini API is temporarily unavailable.

What's changed

• Gemini query assistance: Added optional query rewriting for plain text searches. The search engine still handles retrieval and ranking locally.
• Retry handling: Added retries for temporary Gemini API errors (HTTP 429 and 503), with backoff between attempts.
• Graceful fallback: Search remains usable when Gemini assistance fails or is unavailable.
• Documentation: Updated the README to make the live demo easier to find and clarify the project's features and limitations.

Notes

• Gemini assistance is optional.
• Only the query text is sent to Gemini when assistance is explicitly enabled.
• Gemini does not generate search results or replace the local retrieval and ranking system.
• Uploaded documents remain in the current Streamlit session and are not persisted to server storage.
• PDF support extracts text only; scanned PDFs are not processed with OCR.

Verification

CI checks passed for this release, including the supported Python versions and the Streamlit smoke test.