It looks like quicksand doesn't have text search, and is also about twice the size (14KB).
...and Quicksand is dependent on jQuery :)
Re:List.js
by DanielRibeiro on Thursday October 20, 2011 @02:25PM
(#3136138)
The filter by type is actually a text search. But filter by function is always more general and powerful.
[1] http://razorjack.net/quicksand/