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How not to break a search engine

57 pointsby akpa1almost 4 years ago

4 comments

walrus01almost 4 years ago
If you want to see a very bad example of a broken search engine, use the Google voice Assistant to search for "how many raccoons can fit"
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sqsalmost 4 years ago
@rijnard (the blog post author) is awesome, and all of the code changes he talks about in the blog post are public. You can see all of his recent changes to search code in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourcegraph.com&#x2F;search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com&#x2F;sourcegraph&#x2F;sourcegraph%24+type:diff+author:rijnard+f:search&amp;patternType=literal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourcegraph.com&#x2F;search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egith...</a> in case you want to follow along by just reading the code (that query shows all of his diffs that touch paths containing `search`).
ameliusalmost 4 years ago
I want to know how to <i>benchmark</i> a search engine.
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tantaloralmost 4 years ago
No live traffic experiment? Seems risky to launch without