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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by donmatito on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:05AM (#16984410)
The HN search implentation is a bit sad, because it lacks the most magic part of Algolia : the real time search.

Using Algolia in a full-page-load HTML request is using a Ferrari do drive to the grocery store. You can, but what a waste

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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by Artemis2 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:02AM (#16984830)
Have you tried https://hn.algolia.com?
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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by donmatito on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:46AM (#16993551)
Yes I had, but I forgot about it, thanks. Much better than HN own implentation.

Algolia also implemented a linkedin contact search infinitely superior to Linkedin own search.

I remember thinking that both demos were really brilliant growth strategy because it showed clearly, by contrast, how much the status quo was painful

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