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In general, people are trained by Google to expect a lot out of a search. On Google you can phrase a search in a number of ways that don't precisely map to how the ideal content phrases it, and still figure it out. This works because Google has a massive amount of data - data from searches about what words are generally synonyms of other words, data from other pages on the internet that link to the target page, and d…
In general, people are trained by Google to expect a lot out of a search. On Google you can phrase a search in a number of ways that don't precisely map to how the ideal content phrases it, and still figure it out. This works because Google has a massive amount of data - data from searches about what words are generally synonyms of other words, data from other pages on the internet that link to the target page, and d…
I don't know, I rolled my own search feature for a previous project just using mysql full text search with weighted results and ended up with something that worked way better than reddit's search function. Building the next google is hard but building a functional search feature isn't exactly rocket science, especially when you have reddit level money.
I remember creating a search function in school, and while it worked pretty well, I'm not sure it would work well for an organization with as much information as Reddit.
As for reddit-level money, does reddit even make all that much compared to their expenses?
In general, people are trained by Google to expect a lot out of a search. On Google you can phrase a search in a number of ways that don't precisely map to how the ideal content phrases it, and still figure it out. This works because Google has a massive amount of data - data from searches about what words are generally synonyms of other words, data from other pages on the internet that link to the target page, and d…
I don't know, I rolled my own search feature for a previous project just using mysql full text search with weighted results and ended up with something that worked way better than reddit's search function. Building the next google is hard but building a functional search feature isn't exactly rocket science, especially when you have reddit level money.
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I don't know, I rolled my own search feature for a previous project just using mysql full text search with weighted results and ended up with something that worked way better than reddit's search function. Building the next google is hard but building a functional search feature isn't exactly rocket science, especially when you have reddit level money.
Is that a fair comparison? Reddit has a ridiculous amount of data to search through. I feel like if improving search was so trivial, they would have done it already.
Edit: Found this on reddit's wikipedia page:
"On July 21, 2010, Reddit outsourced the Reddit search engine to Flaptor, who used its search product IndexTank.[91] As of July 12, 2012, Reddit uses Amazon CloudSearch."
It seems to be an implementation issue, not a technological one.