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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by nostrademons on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:56PM (#13963241)
There are plenty of companies providing hosted ElasticSearch these days, starting with Elastic.co, the corporate sponsors of the open-source project. Amazon hosted ES is also a lot better than it was just a few months ago; they were stuck on 1.5 for the longest time, but now they've already got support for 5.1.1.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by user5994461 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:24PM (#13963383)
The database is just a building block for the search. You still have to implement a lot of logic and smartness on top.

algolia does that out of the box.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by parthdesai on Sunday March 26, 2017 @06:25PM (#13963687)
It's not that hard though. I'm a junior dev and i managed to implement ES ( AWS hosted of course) for our site search on my on own. If i can do it, pretty sure majority of people can do it.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by ice109 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:01PM (#13963867)
nothing like this is hard. being Junior or not has nothing to do with it. it's a question of investing time/money
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