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Cool in concept, but your search algorithm leaves something to be desired. Your app reminded me I wanted to watch Khan's videos on IPOs, so I type in: IPO ...
by empire29 16y ago
Cool in concept, but your search algorithm leaves something to be desired.
Your app reminded me I wanted to watch Khan's videos on IPOs, so I type in: IPO ... about half way down the list of ~50 results are the videos I wanted to watch (An IPO, More on IPOs).. I actually had to do a Ctrl-F to find them in the result list.
- empire29 16y agobjacobso, what search utility are you using on the backend? -- Are you using YouTube search? - Or are you building your own index using Sphinx,Solr/Lucene,etc. - Or some combination of?
- bjacobso 16y agoIt is actually all being done client side. I download a video list in json and create a client side document store. I figured searching 1500 items wasn't worth doing a server roundtrip. I then just search youtube for the title of the video they choose. I use quicksilver.js to match items. I probably need to increase the score threshold to ensure more accurate results.