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Re:HNSearch API Contest by andres on Saturday June 04, 2011 @03:23PM (#2620238)
Awesome! It would be great to start a discussion about ranking algorithms in the HNSearch developer forum (http://groups.google.com/group/hnsearch). We'd like to implement some ThriftDB features to tweak ranking algorithms automatically but that won't be ready for a while.
Re:HNSearch API Contest by jrussbowman on Saturday June 04, 2011 @03:28PM (#2620248)
I haven't even gotten into ranking yet. I took the example url and rolled with that. I think the first thing I'll focus on is seeing if I can also offer /hncomment and /hnlinks to help people search different types, then work on the algorithms for all 3. Once I have /hn display looking good I can roll it out to the other 2 pretty quickly.