I miss the old HN search. The new one has some nice features, but it's missing basic search engine commands. I used to do search stuff like "ai OR artificial intelligence OR deeplearning..." to see if any articles on a certain subject have been posted today.
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#32Algolia is an amazing product. I've used it on several projects over the past few years and the performance & ease of use is top notch.
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#33I miss the old HN search. The new one has some nice features, but it's missing basic search engine commands. I used to do search stuff like "ai OR artificial intelligence OR deeplearning..." to see if any articles on a certain subject have been posted today.
Did you try:
ai "artificial intelligence" deeplearning
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#34I think that Adafruit uses them, too. What I notice with their results is that they start strong, but fall off very rapidly into partial gibberish. For example, say I want to make a battery-powered project. I search "lipo." The results start out promising; charging boards, including a few options tailored to specific popular boards. But by the time we get to the end of page 1, only every other result or so is actuall…
Sounds more like a design decision - don't exclude documents, where there is a low probability of relevance. For various reasons it might be better to have more results with some irrelevant ones, instead of 7 highly relevant ones.
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#35Guess I always assumed Algolia wasn't anything special. Anyone know what exactly makes it worth so much?
I would say it is the libraries in various languages and ui helpers integrated with their engine.
We have been working on a more flexible alternative with additional features and also have a few current Algolia customers who are trying it in beta. The number one feedback has been how easy it is to get started with Algolia..
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#36Algolia is a great company! I am using their docsearch but my friend used it in a mobile commerce app. He was super impressed with the integration and the end result was a great user experience.
highly recommend checking them out. Congrats to the Algolia team!
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#37Algolia is a great product. However, the market is very very tough here. The problem here is consolidation: all big customers (successful websites) will end up being part of mega-corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, etc.). And all these companies have their own search engine (which they use for other machine learning, etc. - not just search). For example, Twitch will probably switch to Amazon A9. So t…
I mean Twitch has been passed between two giants and they're still using Algolia.
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#38Algolia is a great product. However, the market is very very tough here. The problem here is consolidation: all big customers (successful websites) will end up being part of mega-corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, etc.). And all these companies have their own search engine (which they use for other machine learning, etc. - not just search). For example, Twitch will probably switch to Amazon A9. So t…
I wouldn't assume that any SaaS requires the big 4 to be their customers to qualify for a high evaluation. Users are used to search that's incredibly smart thanks to Google and it is an extreme technical challenge to roll your own smart search. Many mid size and small companies would save tons of money by buying it from someone else.
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#39Algolia is a great product. However, the market is very very tough here. The problem here is consolidation: all big customers (successful websites) will end up being part of mega-corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, etc.). And all these companies have their own search engine (which they use for other machine learning, etc. - not just search). For example, Twitch will probably switch to Amazon A9. So t…
I mean Twitch has been passed between two giants and they're still using Algolia.
Just FYI: https://www.a9.com/careers/
Algolia is better so they need to stick with it. But Amazon will get there... But if Amazon finds out that writing code is harder then writing a check they will write the check. But they are still trying.
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#40Any comments on Swiftype and what this means to them ?