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Ask HN: Is hn.algolia broken? Any other options?
4 points by aprdm on Nov 3, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Hey,

I've used https://hn.algolia.com for a long time to search relevant topics in hacker news but lately it isn't showing good results.

Just now I was looking for gantt charts stories by popularity in the last year and got nothing relevant back: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gantt&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story

Tried a few different things (custom time range over a long period of time for example) and nothing. Google is giving me much better results!

Same happened when I was looking into HAProxy articles... any other sites people use to search hacker news? Is it just me or is hn.algolia not as good anymore?




I'm not sure about any algolia problems, but is there any specific reason you don't want to just use Google? (that's what I use to search HN) If you tack on "site:ycombinator.com" it generally works great for site-specific searches. You can do time ranges and more advanced searches as well.


(algolia employee speaking) Please don't hesitate to reach out to us using support@algolia.com, we would love to better understand your issues and ultimately improve the relevancy.


looks like it is working now




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