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Another question, If I wanted to improve reddit's search, it would help to know what solutions you've already investigated (and what you are currently doing)?
by jwegan 16y ago
Another question, If I wanted to improve reddit's search, it would help to know what solutions you've already investigated (and what you are currently doing)?
- jedberg 16y agoHere is where we publish most of the info about search: http://www.reddit.com/help/search http://www.reddit.com/help/search In short, it used to be a fulltext search through the database, and now is is Solr built on Lucene. However, I think PG's essay about why he doesn't have a better search on HN applies equally to reddit -- because there are much better things to spend time on.
- soult 16y agoPG is wrong, search is a very useful feature. Even more so for a site like reddit where submissions can be in different subreddits. If search weren't useful, why is there searchyc? And every few weeks a topic about why there is no search function?
- jedberg 16y agoI didn't say it wasn't useful. I just said there are better things to work on with our limited resources.
- samd 16y agoIs there some reason that using Google isn't good enough? Most of my trouble searching reddit is because it's hard to translate "that picture of a guy with a bacon helmet" into something Google understands.