Few days ago Hivesearcher proposal ended and here is the summary of work done and what to expect next.

Summary of work

In total around 8100 HBD funds were received from DHF. Almost half of this fund were allocated to cover server costs for past 6 months. With other half we did following work:

• Rebranding to Hivesearcher and launch of website and API changes
• Removed premium API generation and modified for open access to all dapps
• Out reach to talk with some of the Dapps to integrate Hivesearcher into their apps to give users better search experience. Following dapps are using Hivesearcher, Ecency, Hive.blog, Peakd, D.Buzz, and many others are trying out to see if it fits their audience and needs. Remember, you can easily offer custom search experience for certain community as well, for Tribes, LeoFinance for example, simple query parameter to use would be category: and combining that with tag: filter, you have fully functional custom search experience.
• Updated indexer script twice to make it work with HF24, find better way to utilize Hivemind's new structure and tables.
• Improved documentation and opensourced web interface.

What's next

We were hoping to spend some time to improve ranking algorithms and search relevance but after HF24, there was unexpected changes that required our attention to run service uninterrupted. In few days, we are planning to create another proposal and propose new scope of development. On top of monthly server costs, here is list of what we are planning to work on next.

• Improve search ranking algorithm
• Re-index with new algorithm on different clusters
• Improve website to showcase power of search engine with filters similar to Google
• Explore media content filtering options (video content, image content, text content, body length related filtering)
• Create custom, flexible feeds from indexed data, (e.g. top posts of past month, top posts of past year, top comments of past month, etc.)
• Document extra use cases (iframe integration, filtering data and detailed examples for developers to copy-paste or try)

Feedback and suggestions

Are you Dapp developer?
Are you avid user of any/some Hive frontends?

Feel free to share your suggestions and feedback, we can discuss next scope of work and prepare for our next work accordingly. And work towards making content discovery better.

• Website: https://hivesearcher.com
• Integration guide: https://hivesearcher.com/api-docs
• Source website: https://github.com/ecency/hivesearcher
• Source plugin: https://github.com/ecency/hive2elastic