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by greglindahl 4916 days ago
Right now:

* blekko.com is "10 blue links", desktop search, slashtags used to eliminate webspam

* rockzi.com is [/category /date], date sorted results for a category (slashtag), with an image-heavy UI, social voting, and user submissions

* izik.com is search for the tablet, image-heavy UI for ALL of the categories (slashtags) that we think may be relevant for a search.

All 3 build on the same underlying crawl and index dataset. Rockzi and izik share UI elements.
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orangethirty 4916 days ago
I use roughly the same architecture. What I call the back-end (the crawling system and index) are just an API. Then the front-end connects to it to fill in the blanks. Though I don't know if you guys are doing logic in the front end part, but I'm definitely am. The ranking/rating can be modified from user input. Though this is abstracted and passes through various layers of security to prevent gaming. My front end is currently Django, but I will have to move to something faster if demands call for it. The back end is all custom stuff using async libraries.
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