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I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch

Posted by ketralnis@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 18 comments

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seweso@reddit

now do this in node.js

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Bloodsucker_@reddit

Honest question.

Why are you guys using Elastic for other than searching logs? Why are you using it even that often? What other use cases are there?

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Ultimate600@reddit

I'm building an elasticsearch-search engine to search for a better engine than elasticsearch

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_web_head@reddit

Hint: it's right there in the name

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phil_gal@reddit

Damn I hate elastic so much.

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wildjokers@reddit

Why?

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kmarx@reddit

There is a tongue in cheek reddit search joke to be made here :)

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uCodeSherpa@reddit

I swear Microsoft and Reddit just have some running in-joke about who can make the worst, most useless, never working piece of shit search ever.

Outlook or Reddit?

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SadieWopen@reddit

It's interesting because the outlook web app search is great, and the outlook desktop app search is useless.

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flowering_sun_star@reddit

Turns out that making a good text search is really really expensive.

There's not much more to it than that - a solution like elasticsearch will do the job if you throw enough money at it to scale up enough. Is that worth it? Probably not.

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Kilobyte22@reddit

I see you haven't used confluence before

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binheap@reddit

Even worse, confluence takes time to get back to you with nothing. At least save me time if you're going to give me back bad results.

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kmarx@reddit

I am just making a fun little joke about the author of the article.

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myringotomy@reddit

Have you ever used the reddit app on IOS?

It doesn't even work half the time.

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Smooth-Zucchini4923@reddit

I assumed when I read the title that you had found a way to make it worse than operating an Elasticsearch cluster, which was why it was impressive. :)

This is a cool project. I have a project where I'm currently using vector embeddings for search, and the results are disappointing. I might check out your project and see if it helps.

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rjromero@reddit

You’re comparing a highly optimized, production Java search engine to a python side project. It’s 5x slower but just by switching to Java you’d probably get similar performance.

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Swimming-Cupcake7041@reddit

Right, this basically confirms that ES sucks ass

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obetu5432@reddit

that must have been difficult