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It all depends on what you’re trying to find when you search. Google knows your background, Algolia doesn’t. I too built a search engine: https://demo.insider
by lettergram 7y ago
It all depends on what you’re trying to find when you search. Google knows your background, Algolia doesn’t.
I too built a search engine:
https://demo.insideropinion.com/meta_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=Ml+%7C+machine+learning&order_by=expertise&order=desc https://demo.insideropinion.com/meta_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93...
I find it works 100x better for me, when I weight results by my expertise. Basically, returning results based on what I already am familiar with.
- faceshapeapp 7y agoThe results aren't necessarily better because of the Google knowledge of you, because they are pretty good results even in Private browsing without being logged in. It just seems to me that HN search does a simple keyword matching and reordering based on points without any ranking (please someone correct if I'm wrong). So freshness doesn't seem to have any value, but the reality is that, at least in tech, very few content is evergreen. Also, when you try to reorder by date for example, you'll end up with a lot of empty threads which again are not that useful. I'm not sure if there's a way of eliminating empty threads from search results.
- lettergram 7y agoThey rank by popularity by default (up votes), but I agree generally their API doesn’t seem to do ranking.
- plnech 7y agoFWIW, Private browsing doesn't prevent Google to tailor results to what it can guess about you: https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/ https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/