Hivesearcher is a search engine designed for the Hive blockchain, enabling community members and dapps to quickly and easily find the information they are looking for. Hivesearcher can be really powerful with proper user interfaces and usage. In this post, we are exploring and showcasing some use cases.
Hivesearcher indexes all the comments and posts on the blockchain, enabling users to search by typing one or more keywords. Numbers at the bottom of the home page represent all the posts and comments created on Hive.
Let's see how it works.
- Input the keywords you are searching for it will start finding the text that you looking for. Results will be displayed in different categories:
Relevance - refers to the connection relevance to the keywords.
Popular - is the one with the highest rewards.
Recent - recent posts to the keyword.
If we wrap them in quotation marks, they will find the exact words from the content.
There are a lot of options that may ease your search, such as adding the author or specifying the type as a post or comment.
You can find the same search engine on Ecency.com that accesses the Hivesearcher database. Many Hive applications also integrate Hivesearcher into their platforms. This means that when people search from other applications, they can also discover content from the Hivesearcher index.
When you search using the keyword "game," you will see recent posts at the top, along with usernames or descriptions related to gaming communities, and finally, topics related to the game.
The Advanced section offers additional options, such as adding authors, post or comment types, categories, tags, and sorting by date or popularity.
Another way to use the search engine is on your profile page, where you can search for content from your profile. Similarly, the community page allows searching within the community, utilizing the Category option from the Advanced settings on the search index on Ecency.
Another feature is that while reading any content, you will see other relevant results scrolling down the page. Ecency uses two main tags to display posts with similar tags, using the category from the advanced settings. This allows you to easily find similar content related to the topic you are reading.
If you want to integrate Hivesearcher for free into your application, you can check the Hivesearcher.com API documentation page.
This provides information about the type of data you can access and how to make your own queries. The flexibility of the search engine allows for quick content discovery. You can also see how Ecency.com is utilizing it, as Ecency is open source and provides insight into the integration process for your application. Ecency.com has Controversial and Rising feeds powered by Hivesearcher as well.
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