brentadamson

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by brentadamson 8y ago
But there's an army of users that will ultimately decide.
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by brentadamson 8y ago
Well, if there are no other votes for a given query then an upvoted link will go to the top. Once it's there then that link is now more visible to others who can either agree or disagree. EDIT: Like I've pointed out in other comme
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by brentadamson 8y ago
The rate limit applies to everyone equally so you can write a bot to upvote all your links but someone can then write a bot to downvote them. The default scoring system is meant to be overwritten and can help weed out the bot attempts: htt
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by brentadamson 8y ago
What prevents their competitor from downvoting them? The rate limit applies equally to everyone. EDIT: The scoring function can also be customized. https://github.com/jivesearch/jivesearch/blob/master/sea
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by brentadamson 8y ago
We need to run the crawler longer...and we are going to be replacing the crawler with something that should be a lot faster.
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by brentadamson 8y ago
We need more links indexed. The crawler that I wrote is pretty slow and right now we don't have a lot of documents indexed. I will be replacing the crawler I wrote with a faster one soon. Until then I have been using !bangs.
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by brentadamson 8y ago
I meant that users can upvote/downvote the results. EDIT: To clarify - I've just referenced Reddit in this post. I don't plan to use it anywhere else.
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by brentadamson 8y ago
Users upvote/downvote the results.
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Show HN: A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results(github.com)
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by brentadamson 11y ago
that clears it up. thx