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17,888karma·3,372submissions·September 16, 2013
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Wait are the tumors learning? This headline is a tad confusing.
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Thanks! Very much appreciated.
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(author here) -- yeah we focus on relevance exclusively. Other topics like analytics, scale, devops, performance, data integration would be better handled by one of the pure Elasticsearch or Solr book…
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nice I stand corrected. The first list is what I knew about! This is actually an interesting dividing line. As you get more sophisticated modeling fuzzier concepts over just synonyms (synonyms are jus…
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True though this assumes these direct words are mentioned in the text (assuming know synonyms). Algolia has basic synonym functionality but ES gives you a lot more power here. Further the more words y…
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@Lxr In addition to being good at known item searches, my pitch for Algolia would be (1) it's Easier to perform relevance tuning. You'd be surprised how annoying the Solr/ES defaults ar…
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This is actually a great example that shows where Algolia doesn't shine. Algolia is great a known-item searches. Searches that are like looking up a contact in your phone list. This is a common u…
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If you like this article don't forget to listen to us chat with Algolia CTO on our podcast Search Disco http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/05/31/algoli…
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(Author here) Case in point where Elasticsearch shines is one of yesterday's hacker news articles http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2016/05/elasticsearch-based-ima... Here E…
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My "Ghost in The Search Machine" talk builds a really naive image search demo (which Sujit uses for his starting point). You might enjoy that: https://www.elastic.co/elastico…