Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search • Hacker News Board

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by smartt » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 6:08 PM UTC

boomzilla wrote: post #13

Hardcoding your scoring function here is a bad, bad idea: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick/blob/master/lib/searchk... Just curious, how many docs are you indexing?

I'm curious about this "bad, bad idea" theory too. For our site, I have a handful of hard-coded scoring functions that the site can select from based on search context, and it's far more supportable and debuggable than some of the dynamic query assembly approaches I've tried in the past.

ElasticSearch is a wonderful product that is a real pain to tune, so I'm curious if there's a better approach I'm missing.

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by gojomo » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 9:02 PM UTC

sheraz wrote: post #5

asnyder wrote: post #2

This looks pretty good. Though many of the features are already baked into PostgreSQL's full-text search, out of the box this seems to add enough value to get me interested. I'll definitely be checking this out further.

Upvoted, and I'll pile on. Wordnet [1] already has addons for Postgres. [1] - https://github.com/taotetek/wordnet-postgres

Can you clarify... does this addon simply store the Wordnet data inside Postgres, or actually let the postgres full-text search do query-expansion-to-synonyms?

Re: Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search

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Post by sheraz » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 9:21 PM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #22

sheraz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvoted, and I'll pile on. Wordnet [1] already has addons for Postgres. [1] - https://github.com/taotetek/wordnet-postgres

Can you clarify... does this addon simply store the Wordnet data inside Postgres, or actually let the postgres full-text search do query-expansion-to-synonyms?

Sure. There are functions in this package. This link is better, which explains how the functions will work.

http://wnsqlbuilder.sourceforge.net/sql.html