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Reddit doesn't really need to build a search engine, they could just have an algolia instance like HN does: https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/. Wh
by notRobot 5y ago
Reddit doesn't really need to build a search engine, they could just have an algolia instance like HN does: https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/.
While not perfect, it does a pretty good job, in my experience.
However, the article makes a valid point -- the moment people start using it heavily, we'll get a reddit comment equivalent of SEO, with keyword stuffing and whatnot.
- danuker 5y agoI absolutely love the HN Algolia search. I am amazed by its sheer speed, and that it does exactly what you'd expect, lets you sort by popularity and filter by time, and does no neural-network-deep-learning-garbage query rewriting. I'm thankful for its existence, and I hope they get plenty of clients due to this HN demo of their power. I hope they can afford to keep it alive forever. I use it instead of the " reddit" suffix in Google, usually HN has what I'm interested in, and in any case has much higher signal-to-noise ratio.
- bduerst 5y agoAlgolia was the first thing I though about when the post was made yesterday. I commented this elsewhere but I don't think Reddit wants a good search option. Users tend to repost a non-trivial amount of content/questions/etc., and if those users could find the original content with a better search, it's likely reddit would see less user engagement.