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Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by wf on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:25PM (#7746168)
Nice looking site! Just some things I noticed:

-when I search, it's not automatically filtered by date

-when I search "woodlands" I get 0 results but when I search "the woodlands" I get 85, none of which are http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/tex...

-I have no idea what SPR, OLY, and CUS are and when I mouse over them it doesn't tell me anything

But, I'll definitely show this to my more active friends; nicely done!

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Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:27PM (#7746187)
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. CTO is constantly tweaking the search so we can make it as "free form" as possible. We're trying to get away from "filter drop down" hell
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Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by Jemaclus on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:37PM (#7746253)
Check out Elasticsearch as a search index. It does a pretty good job of full text searches, and it's free. I use it for a lot of my projects, and I think it's one of the better ones out there. Let me know if I can help! Good luck!
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Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:55PM (#7746363)
Yup, we use ES and love it! Thanks for the offering, I'll let philipDS know if he hits any stumbling blocks to get in touch.
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