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How I improved Twitter Handles Search's ranking
- redox_ 13y agoDemo is available at http://twittersearch.algolia.io http://twittersearch.algolia.io
- shawabawa3 13y agoSeems pretty good, however if you search for "bill", the 3rd result is "Ryan Seacrest" If there's only a partial match with the description it probably shouldn't rank it so highly
- redox_ 13y agoYou're right "Ryan Seacrest" has +10M followers. As you might have read on the blog, the user query produces 2 underlying queries. The first targeting top users (having 10M+ followers). This one retrieves "Ryan Seacrest", even if the match was only part of the description. It would be better if replaced by a query targeting the user's followers, but I reached Twitter's rate limits while implementing it. The second targeting others.
- redox_ 13y agoI've just committed a patch skipping top users if the match was only in the description, with typos. Thanks for your feedback.