Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
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Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
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Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#2Congrats to the team!
Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search?
For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#3Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
You can change the filters and ranking in the HN search page. I find it faster and easier than Google for comment content.
Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#4Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
I have found their search interface for HN (https://hn.algolia.com) useful. They have a drop-down for selecting how you'd want to sort the results. From how I see it Google is doing more blackbox magic whereas Algolia is being a faithful/predictable search engine.
Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#5Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
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Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#6Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
Not really. The sorting is based on popularity by default, which you can change. To compare:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://www.google.com/search?q=news.ycombinator.com%3A+ml&o...
Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#7Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
Sample size of 1, but yes, I also tend to have better results using `query site:news.ycombinator.com` than using the built-in Algolia search.
Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#8Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
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Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#9Official blog post: https://blog.algolia.com/algolia-series-c-2019-funding/
Re: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
#10Congrats to the team! Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search? For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
It's only as good as the HN team have configured the ranking and other algolia settings. Be nice for them to expose these.