TOtosh·Feb 27, 2024Submission
Searchkick: Intelligent Search Made Easy
1 points · Open discussionankane
searchkick
Ruby2013–2024
ankane / searchkick
searchkick
Intelligent search made easy
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Intelligent search made easy
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Observed mentions: 2013-07-30 21:52:32 UTC to 2024-02-27 16:41:01 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesYou're right, that's actually what we implemented, application-level hooks, but they needed development and maintenance effort that come for free with the adapter we're using for OpenSearch integration, which also comes with welcome features: synonyms, partial matches, and many others.
Spoiler, the adapter is Searchkick: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick
In Postgres Full Text Search vs. the RestThey are, but I think it's interesting what's happening outside Google's reach. It's become increasingly cheap for companies to store information about each customer, which drives customization throughout that company's product offering.
There's a library built on ES that I have been watching on Github which promotes results based on ecommerce conversion data: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick
In The Information: Beyond Google, a Search Battle BrewsI appreciate that you decided to open-source this project. I do have a few (hopefully) constructive criticisms to make:
1. Using aliases the reindex with near zero downtime is very clever, mad props to Jaroslav Kalistsuk
2. Tire is excellent, I am glad you didn't try to reinvent the wheel here, please keep it that way.
3. Conversion based score boosting, although clever is flawed. Hardcoding values https://github.com/ankane/searchkick/blob/master/lib/searchk... is convoluted. You should consider providing a more flexible DSL to customize how conversion based score is calculated.
4. Analyzers https://github.com/ankane/searchkick/blob/master/lib/searchk... are poorly named and do not represent what they do.
Again, this is very nice for version 0.1.2
In Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for SearchHardcoding your scoring function here is a bad, bad idea:
https://github.com/ankane/searchkick/blob/master/lib/searchk...
Just curious, how many docs are you indexing?
In Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search