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by NKCSS 3570 days ago
Fun, but overal quality seems a bit lacking.

When I search myself; the top 10 results don't even have my last name ('Kusters') and just shows pages that have the word 'Nick'. I suppose you don't use a form of LSA to score the search results? Maybe it's too specific, but afaik mainstream search engines seem to give somewhat consistent results here.

https://deusu.org/query?q=nick+kusters

Looking at the code (https://github.com/MichaelSchoebel/DeuSu/) I notice that you have ranking modifiers based on the .tld; why not store the reported content language and score based on that? Isn't that more relevant?

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In my experience this is usually caused by the fact that even 2bn pages aren't that many nowadays. The index needs to get bigger to better find (and rank) long-tail results like queries like this.