I don't understand the sentence: "The new crawler creates an in-memory reverse index to scale for a comprehensive search of its 28 million users."
Does this actually mean anything? It's the "reverse index to scale" part.
Minger
· 2 years ago
"We wrote a crawler for the site, created an in-memory reverse index using both hashes and ternary tries and created a ranking system that scaled to return unique results for over 28 million user profiles."
There's a few ideas crammed into the one sentence:
-data structures in-memory to serve the barrage of hits and cover their vast size -unique results for each of 28 million members over the same space of users -reverse index related to the representation of the search mapping in terms of the social graph?
JP
· 2 years ago
It's amazing how people are more concerned about others rather than themselves. OMG my friend Pedro in Mexico just got a new hat! I gotta check out his pics.
:)
rusi
· 2 years ago
Thanks, Minger. I can understand the sentence in full, but I suggest the original, shortened version is just jargon collapsed into something that didn't make sense. I'm glad it got edited out. :)
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Does this actually mean anything? It's the "reverse index to scale" part.
There's a few ideas crammed into the one sentence:
-data structures in-memory to serve the barrage of hits and cover their vast size
-unique results for each of 28 million members over the same space of users
-reverse index related to the representation of the search mapping in terms of the social graph?
:)