Reddit launches a new search engine

A better title would be "Reddit search is now powered by IndexTank". As it stands right now, it sounds like Reddit launched a new general purpose search engine.

I checked the Reddit post, the FAQ and the IndexTank website, and there was no mention of the underlying technology implementation. It says that it uses a subset of Lucene, but no further details.<p>Is this basically hosted Solr with some tweaks for speed and features?

Anyone else been having wierd issues with reddit lately?<p>For long periods of time I get "the service you request is temporarily unavailable. please try again later." on my home internet connection. From other boxes in the UK, it's fine and from friends on the same ISP, it's also fine. It's quite bizarre.

There are tons of sites like reddit. Digg, delicious, Hacker News itself...it's not a good sign that Reddit needs to outsource its search to IndexTank, when literally every other site like it can handle search themselves.

That's pretty funny that their beta tester 'violentacrez' is the same guy who was sending me personal threats because we removed his borderline child-pornography images from imagesocket.com.<p>Not only that, he seems to be a top member of /r/jailbait reddit community.<p>Nice one.