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redox_on GDPR made searchable by Algolia

Thanks for sharing! Responsive design fixes are on their ways.

redox_on GDPR made searchable by Algolia

Indexing is an asynchronous process so while the data won't be deleted as soon as the deletion API call returns, the data will be deleted shortly after. Usually we're talking about hundreds of milliseconds or a few seconds. This is pretty much the same for all search-engines.

Algolia also exposes a "task" API endpoint to check the state of an indexing operation and to be able to "wait" until the operation has actually been processed. This is for instance what is used in unit tests where we need to wait until the indexing operation has been processed to continue testing.

Then for GDPR; if one of Algolia's customers receives a "personal data deletion" request on their side, it's of course their responsibility to forward it to Algolia using the deletion API (and a few seconds later it will be removed from all indices).

redox_on Ask HN: Algolia or Elastic search? Which one is the best for a search product

(I'm working at Algolia) The answer I'm used to provide when people ask me this question is the one our CTO posted on Quora a few years ago:

https://www.quora.com/How-does-Elasticsearch-relate-and-or-c...

tldr; Algolia's focus is on consumer-grade & user-facing search (searchbar like you would have on Amazon, IMDB, Twitch, Medium.com, quora, ...) while ES's sweet spot is on indexing billions of documents (or lines of logs) and provide rich dashboarding & aggregation capabilities (like a monitoring dashboard with their ELK stack). Recently, ES released a beta of "App Search" which seems to target more and more the user-facing search bars.

Here are also a few resources to help get you an idea:

* from Doug Turnbull, author of "Relevant Search" & ES expert: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/06/01/thoughts-o...

* from an Algolia & ES user: https://medium.com/@matayoshi.mariano/elasticsearch-vs-algol...

* from the Algolia FAQ: https://www.algolia.com/doc/faq/why/what-makes-algolia-diffe...

* from the Algolia blog: https://blog.algolia.com/?s=comparing+algolia+elasticsearch

redox_on How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service

(I'm leading engineering at Algolia) Very sorry to read that the trial period you've experienced was that stalkerish. In order to provide the best customer & support experience to our users, we do ask our teams to do some research before reaching out to our users. I assume this went a little bit far in your case, most probably because you've listed the company you were working for on your GH profile? Please feel free to reach out to me personally if there is anything I can do or anything you cannot share on HN, my email is sylvain@alg..

redox_on Building Real Time Analytics APIs at Scale

(working at Algolia) The biggest reason not going for Keen was indeed related to the cost.

redox_on Tell HN: Algolia search stemming issue

What you're actually experiencing is the result of Algolia's typo-tolerance & prefix searching (both enabled on the HN Search). Indeed, both "chicago" and "chinese" are 1 letter away from "china". We've configured the search to disable the prefix search once you press "Enter" (maybe not easy while on mobile).

redox_on Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

What do you guys use for the search? Regular MongoDB features? How do you handle typo-tolerance and prefix search?

redox_on Algolia (YC W14) wants to bring transparency to service-level agreements

Good point :) I copy/pasted what TC wrote. On our blog, we've a different title: For SLAs, there’s no such thing as 100% Uptime – only 100% Transparency [1]

[1] https://blog.algolia.com/for-slas-theres-no-such-thing-as-10...

redox_on Hacker News search bug?

By default the search will consider the very last word as a "prefix" to handle the as-you-type search experience. If you press enter in the searchbar oh hn.algolia.com, it will "fix" such behavior considering the last word as an actual word.

Notice the "prefix=false" in the URL: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=confused%20lost%20mathe&sort=b...

redox_on Thoughts on Algolia vs. Solr and Elasticsearch

Algolia has actually a very decent synonyms support:

  * mono & multi-words synonyms,

  * typo-tolerance is compliant with synonyms,

  * matching synonyms are highlighted,

  * prefix search works also on synonyms (even on multi words).

A v2 of the synonyms API will be released in the next few days including:

  * dedicated API endpoints (leveraging existing synonyms but also Algolia's "alternative corrections" and "placeholders")

  * new edition UI (with search & filtering capabilities)

  * one/bi direction synonyms

redox_on Why does the Hacker News API not have a comment score?

From what I remember it's because HN keep the comments score private for the first N days. Not sure whether the Firebase API send an `updated` event once disclosed (doesn't seem so).

redox_on Show HN: Chatlio – Live chat with your web visitors directly from Slack

We're currently using it on algolia.com; works like a charm!

redox_on CloudBoost.io – Parse and Firebase and Algolia all combined into one

The links to the JS SDK in your documentation aren't working

redox_on HN Feature Request

Also, for any search specific feature requests you can open a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

redox_on Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

Agree, it should be improved on mobile. I would love to hear more about your desktop experience, what would be the improvement you would love to see?

redox_on Dear Paul

Yes indeed, I think so.

redox_on Dear Paul

We don't remove the comment scores actually :) For the first 10 days of a comment's life, HN's API always returns 0: so we index 0. After 10 days, comment scores are visible and should be updated in the index.

redox_on Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A

some exalead employees actually :)

redox_on Better HN search with bash

Indeed, we never took the time to plug a date parser. Any chance you've time for a pull-request? https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/blob/master/app/assets/... and https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/blob/master/app/control... :)

That would be cool!

redox_on Suspended jaccuzzi

Hey Dan, what kind of problem do you have with the search (we recently fixed the back button + are also working on the small 320px screens support). I would be happy to improve it.

redox_on Show HN: Hacker News Search updated

It has just been fixed. Thank for for the bug report!

redox_on Why has the search system broken the “Back” button?

Should be fixed now.

redox_on Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go

You should give a try to http://hnwatcher.com, it's an alerting tool based on the HN Search API. I personally follow the "algolia" keyword -> it helped me get your question mentioning "hn.algolia.com". Enjoy ;)

redox_on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

Thank you for the detailed feedback; we'll work on that!

redox_on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

Could you share with us some failing queries, I would love to fix them.

redox_on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

By default the title is better ranked but then it will also fetch results in the text, you're right. It could actually makes sense. Just need to figure out the best way to use it (without flooding the UI). Maybe in the dropdown menu before the input or with a search syntax.

redox_on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

Oh btw, your post is highlighted in our blog post Steve :) http://blog.algolia.com/try-new-experimental-version-hn-sear...

redox_on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

Yes "prefixed" search is enabled by default as-you-type. Just press "Enter", it will disable it. Being able to totally remove the "prefixed" search makes sense however.

redox_on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

Clickable with the experimental UI: https://new-hn.algolia.com/?experimental