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by colesantiago 1909 days ago
Not sure why they didn't just go with Elasticsearch?
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We do use Elasticsearch :) But getting ranking right is extremely custom in any context. If relevance was a webapp, relevance ranking is like building the business logic, whereas Elasticsearch is like MySQL. It's a piece of infra that needs to be customized for the project.