Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by obsaysditto » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 6:27 PM UTC

Reddit launches a new search engine
blog.reddit.com

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

#2

Post by briandoll » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 6:58 PM UTC

I checked the Reddit post, the FAQ and the IndexTank website, and there was no mention of the underlying technology implementation. It says that it uses a subset of Lucene, but no further details.

Is this basically hosted Solr with some tweaks for speed and features?

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by AlekseyKorzun » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 6:58 PM UTC

That's pretty funny that their beta tester 'violentacrez' is the same guy who was sending me personal threats because we removed his borderline child-pornography images from imagesocket.com.

Not only that, he seems to be a top member of /r/jailbait reddit community.

Nice one.

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

#4

Post by icey » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 7:18 PM UTC

AlekseyKorzun wrote: post #3

That's pretty funny that their beta tester 'violentacrez' is the same guy who was sending me personal threats because we removed his borderline child-pornography images from imagesocket.com. Not only that, he seems to be a top member of /r/jailbait reddit community. Nice one.

What relevance does that have to this story? He beta tested something, he isn't in charge of it.

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 7:25 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #2

I checked the Reddit post, the FAQ and the IndexTank website, and there was no mention of the underlying technology implementation. It says that it uses a subset of Lucene, but no further details. Is this basically hosted Solr with some tweaks for speed and features?

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Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by jhandl » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 7:31 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #2

I checked the Reddit post, the FAQ and the IndexTank website, and there was no mention of the underlying technology implementation. It says that it uses a subset of Lucene, but no further details. Is this basically hosted Solr with some tweaks for speed and features?

No, the old search was Solr based, this one uses only the lucene index file structure. Not even the scorer is lucene-based.

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by violentacrez » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 8:05 PM UTC

AlekseyKorzun wrote: post #3

That's pretty funny that their beta tester 'violentacrez' is the same guy who was sending me personal threats because we removed his borderline child-pornography images from imagesocket.com. Not only that, he seems to be a top member of /r/jailbait reddit community. Nice one.

Ah, good old irrelevant Aleksey. I trust you and your site are doing well? It's always good to hear from you. I glad I was able to provide you an opportunity to advertise your website. Have an excellent day! :)

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by Timothee » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 8:40 PM UTC

AlekseyKorzun wrote: post #3

That's pretty funny that their beta tester 'violentacrez' is the same guy who was sending me personal threats because we removed his borderline child-pornography images from imagesocket.com. Not only that, he seems to be a top member of /r/jailbait reddit community. Nice one.

Just in case pg sees this: it might be good to change the CSS so that the links in downvoted comments are light-gray as well. Right now, the link unfortunately stands out.

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

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Post by acangiano » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

A better title would be "Reddit search is now powered by IndexTank". As it stands right now, it sounds like Reddit launched a new general purpose search engine.

Re: Reddit launches a new search engine

#10

Post by sadiq » Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 10:22 PM UTC

Anyone else been having wierd issues with reddit lately?

For long periods of time I get "the service you request is temporarily unavailable. please try again later." on my home internet connection. From other boxes in the UK, it's fine and from friends on the same ISP, it's also fine. It's quite bizarre.