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Here is where we publish most of the info about search:

http://www.reddit.com/help/search

In short, it used to be a fulltext search through the database, and now is is Solr built on Lucene.

However, I think PG's essay about why he doesn't have a better search on HN applies equally to reddit -- because there are much better things to spend time on.




PG is wrong, search is a very useful feature. Even more so for a site like reddit where submissions can be in different subreddits.

If search weren't useful, why is there searchyc? And every few weeks a topic about why there is no search function?


Is there some reason that using Google isn't good enough? Most of my trouble searching reddit is because it's hard to translate "that picture of a guy with a bacon helmet" into something Google understands.


I didn't say it wasn't useful. I just said there are better things to work on with our limited resources.




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