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I find it very ironic that AWS is behind this. Whenever I buy books from Amazon I am amazed at their broken search engines. Just search a topic on Amazon and
by oldpond 8y ago
I find it very ironic that AWS is behind this. Whenever I buy books from Amazon I am amazed at their broken search engines. Just search a topic on Amazon and then try to sort the results. LOL.
- tracker1 8y agoIIRC, most of that infrastructure is/was Oracle based and much of it going to another DB. I'm not sure if Elastic is even in the mix, or how well it scales to Amazon's levels.
- gtsteve 8y agoGiven the age of the offering, it might actually be the CloudSearch [0] product that is used by the Amazon.com search team. FWIW, I've always found the Amazon store search to be pretty decent; normally I don't use a website's built in search system, opting for Google instead. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/