Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck

Post by qhoxie » Tue, May 08, 2012, 6:04 PM UTC

sjs382 wrote: post #6

tikhon wrote: post #3

This is so freaking awesome. I've had this problem on nearly every website and blog I've created. Also at both of my startups (Scribd and Parse -- note: Parse uses Swiftype on our documentation pages -- try it out). I've tried google site search (which sucked and wouldn't index all the Scribd pages for example, and it wasn't good enough for the parse documentation) and I've also used lucene and sphinx (pain to set up…

I tested the Parse.com documentation ( https://www.parse.com/docs/search#stq=xcode ) and found some problems with swiftype. When searching via Chrome, I kept getting a blank content area with no search results. I did some digging (thinking that the issue might be that I reject 3rd party cookies) and I found the problem: https://swiftype.com/embed.js wasn't loading. I went to view this script in my browser and got an…

Post by snowmaker » Tue, May 08, 2012, 6:05 PM UTC

rytis wrote: post #8

Very cool. The only problem I see with this is that if Swiftype is down, or slow, your website search is affected too... Depends on how you and your readers value this functionality of course. Some websites don't rely on search as badly as others do. But for basic stuff this is great.

Post by suhail » Tue, May 08, 2012, 6:10 PM UTC

Post by earl » Tue, May 08, 2012, 6:13 PM UTC

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