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Some ideas: 1) a good sitewide search engine. Google's offer is laughable, and Algolia is too developer-centric (requires pushing the data through API). What I
by atemerev 10y ago
Some ideas:
1) a good sitewide search engine. Google's offer is laughable, and Algolia is too developer-centric (requires pushing the data through API). What I'd want is a single input field where I can put my site's main page URL — and get a working search in a few minutes.
2) subscriptions / monitoring. I want to monitor some event or topic, and I want the updates to be delivered to e.g. my WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/whatever, with smart filtering, refining etc (in lieu of frantically Googling / redditing / refreshing Twitter feed)
3) context-preserving interactive search, that can ask me questions/ refine results.
4) Timeline search interface for news / events / company history etc. I want to be able to put the name of a person, or company, or TV series, and get a comprehensive timeline view of all things happened there.
I have a lot more ideas, and zero free time :(
- LiamBoogar 10y ago1) Swiftype (or any of Algolia's integrations - WordPress, ZenDesk, Shopify, Magento, ...) - here you talk about Algolia's developer focus, but the rest of your arguments are about the consumer experience. All search engines are built by developers/engineers, and Algolia delivers end-user experience on Twitch, Periscope, Medium, and even HackerNews (hn.algolia.com), which are exactly what you're looking for. You can actually use Algolia to create all the search engine experience ideas you have, and it takes less time (which you don't have) 2) Mention (http://mention.net http://mention.net) 3) Jelly (didn't work. Maybe there's a reason?) 4) Google / Wikipedia. Unless you can build something 10x better than what exists,