Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm?

Post by tinus_hn » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:12 PM UTC

ktpsns wrote: post #7

HakeHayashi wrote: post #3

Mm... PageRank is the basis, but then recent publications suggest they use a multitude of factors (probably 7-10+?) to evaluate sites. PageRank is still more-or-less the biggest chunk, but since people learned how to game it, they've had to likewise step up their internal game on ranking. What you're requesting probably comes off as a trade secret, but you could probably get reasonable results using a PageRank inspir…

The pagerank algorithm is public and there exist a lot of implementations, for instance https://networkx.org/documentation/networkx-1.10/reference/g...

Post by ktpsns » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

brittpart_ wrote: post #9

ktpsns wrote: post #8

I would recommend to start with a mature search engine such as Lucene or ElasticSearch.

Forgive me if this doesn't make sense: If I'm implementing search in an application and want to use NLP, do I need to train the search or are these solutions already ready to go? I'm not sure how other people do it/how search works/if you need to tell it what to do.