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by Ketan-fullstack 1669 days ago
Thanks for your feedback!

yes, you are spot on about the quality of the tags being low for most searches. The current refinement algorithm will get better as more and more people use the service and that would reduce the number of suggested tags and improve their quality over time.

I am however working on modifying the algorithm to make the refinement more useful for current users.

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That's your classic chicken and egg problem. Few will use the service if the user experience is poor, and your algorithm will not get much useful input.

If you could figure out how to improve it without essentially becoming Google and spending 2 decades and billions of dollars, then we're talking...