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I have been meaning to ask about that. It sucks big time. It finds anything but what I search for. I always have to resort to ddg or google.
by _8j50 4y ago
I have been meaning to ask about that. It sucks big time. It finds anything but what I search for. I always have to resort to ddg or google.
- bmelton 4y agoI hate to be snarky, but I've almost considered Algolia for search on side projects a couple of times, and every time gone back to the HN search to see if it had improved. It hadn't, so I've yet to use it (and just always spin up an ElasticSearch instance instead) It's very possibly an unfair critique (by me) because I don't know what data modeling tools are available to HN admins (via Algolia) and I can certainly appreciate by the terrible search results if nothing else that HN gets a lot of duplicated content that does not match my data creation patterns, but while it's often that I'll go to the search to find the discussion for a topic I remember seeing within the past week but is clearly no longer on the home page, I can count on zero hands the number of times I've found it through the search.