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Tried Algolia?, HN use them. They offer some nice features.

For finding stuff:, sometimes moderation is needed. Check Information Architecture articles to see how to index and catalog information. Some solutions are: site maps, and an alphabetical index, metadata, etc. And as mentioned, sometimes the best solution relies in: Mods and curators.

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Thank you for the input. I know them but I never used Algolia except hn.algolia.com - It seems ok but I usually need to be creative and go through a bunch of pages when I am looking for something. I think Algolia is also using elastic search. Do you use them? How much are they better than an ES cluster?

(algolia employee) Hi Chris, Algolia is actually not using Elasticsearch. We've been building our own search engine from the ground up to target the very (end-)user-facing search use-case (big focus on UX, speed & typo-tolerance) while one of Elasticsearch's sweet spot is more billion of line of logs indexing, aggregations & filtering.

You can read more about the differences on Quora, our CTO answered there a few years ago: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Elasticsearch-relate-and-or-c...

Not sure why, but you need to remove the Ad-Blocker to see our CTO (Julien)'s answer /o\

Just sign-in in Qura or add ?share=1 in the URL...

I read his answers and a few others. Thanks! It sounds it is definitely worth to test it.

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