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Digg Search: Now With 99.987% Less Suck. Really nice implementation of faceted search, still using Lucene and Solr under the hood.

Posted 10th April 2009 at 10:17 pm

Recent articles

Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide - 9th September 2025
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search - 6th September 2025
V&A East Storehouse and Operation Mincemeat in London - 27th August 2025

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