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Re:HN Search Updated by pilooch on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:31PM (#7118949)
I m a search engineer among other things. New update is weird, especially ranking. try 'machine learning', gets something from a year ago then Stanford class from 2011, really ? If you re dealing with 10M entries in the index this is low enough that ranking should be better.

I know how perfect tuning these engine as is difficult, and this one requires some more work ;) good luck and congrats for YC 14 anyways!

Re:HN Search Updated by redox_ on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:38PM (#7118983)
For now, the ranking is only based on the number of points/comments of an item. We're actually working on a way to include the freshness of a post. Thanks for the support ;)
Re:HN Search Updated by pilooch on Friday January 24, 2014 @07:00PM (#7119087)
solr/ES would do that almost out of the box. how does your stuff differ or make it simpler (besides cloud) ?