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I've completed a lot of MOOCs in my time and have been on the content creation side for online learning as well and it's great to see another tool help…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"15346990","dotdi","Being a sucker for MOOCs, this is pretty exciting. The search algorithm doesn't seem to work right, though. Also, a bit more information would be nice, i.e. when the next…",{"value":62,"source":51,"evidence":63},"Online learners looking for courses",[64,65],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":67,"source":68,"evidence":69},"Build a minimalist search engine giving bare essentials","maker",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"15348157","Interesting. I will definitely consider adding filters in the future. Originally, I just wanted to a build minimalist search engine that just gave the bare essentials (kind of…",[74,80],{"value":75,"source":68,"evidence":76},"Flask",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"15348118","Flask for web framework, Elasticsearch for search. The speed might be due to the fact that there is no JS \u002F images on the front end.",{"value":81,"source":68,"evidence":82},"Elasticsearch",[83],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"unknown","launched",{"praise":87,"objections":115,"requests":142,"questions":182,"alternatives":198},[88,104],{"value":89,"source":90,"evidence":91},"Very fast page loads and search results","commenter",[92,96,100],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"15347360","scadge","Wow the speed is truly awesome - 125ms for the main page and 169ms for the search.",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"15347741","paulgb","Seriously. It was so fast I was convinced it was precaching results as you type but it's not. Would love to read a write-up on this.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"15348872","lovehashbrowns","I thought you and the other comments were exaggerating, but you're actually not. This feels impossibly fast from a user perspective. I'd love to see a write-up of this as well.",{"value":105,"source":90,"evidence":106},"Simple, minimalist UI",[107,111],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"15347872","ankyth27","Helpful work. Simplistic UI and fast results. Would love to see some more websites like khanacademy, udemy etc in the results too. Some filters like cost\u002Fstarting in\u002Fdifficulty…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"15353681","the_watcher","I like the minimalism. Filtering is great, but more valuable when you know exactly what you want. That said, a (very) few filters for the most common reasons a searcher knows…",[116,135],{"value":117,"source":90,"evidence":118},"Search results relevance is poor and fuzzy matching is too aggressive",[119,123,127,131],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"15349933","WillPostForFood","Had mixed results on my first two searches: \"C#\" returns C++ and Objective C classes, several ranked above actual C# classes. \"Unity\" as in the game engine, returns classes on…",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"15346743","hannofcart","Not sure the search algorithms are working as expected. Consider: https:\u002F\u002Fibb.co\u002FiGQQPQ",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"15355042","erikig","The autocorrect\u002Ffuzzy search is a little too aggressive. For instance searching for \"PHP\" or \"REPL\" yielded results with \"PHD\" and \"Real...\"",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"15350281","na85","Similar problem here: searched for \"CFD\" expecting to see hits related to Lorena Barba's excellent intro-level fluids courses and instead got hits for \"CAD\", \"CFT\", and \"CFP\".",{"value":136,"source":90,"evidence":137},"Violet background is aggressive",[138],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"15348555","mweibel","Nicely done, might use that from time to time! I'd reconsider the violet background, it's a bit too agressive and I almost closed the page immediately.",[143,159,174],{"value":144,"source":90,"evidence":145},"Add filters such as free\u002Fpaid, language, video lectures",[146,150,154,158],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"15347586","rexercises","You might want to consider adding filters. We built an online MOOC directory, specifically for R courses (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.r-exercises.com\u002Fr-courses\u002F), and noticed that the majority of…",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"15350024","apetresc","Another filter I think is very important: only courses that have video lectures.",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"15354152","smartbit","Another filter: language. Many people don't speak English. Maybe you can automatically detect the language and add to your list of languages as you go?",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},{"value":160,"source":90,"evidence":161},"Index more providers like Khan Academy, Kadenze, NPTEL",[162,166,170],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"15347180","dayaz36","How is there not any Khan Academy results in any of the searches?",{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"15349674","pkmital","Great idea and hopefully it will help connect a lot of students to some great material! I noticed it wasn't indexing https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kadenze.com. Is there any chance you could add…",{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"15379168","davidzweig","Nice, please also add NPTEL: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.nptelvideos.in\u002F Many useful technical courses on there of high quality.",{"value":175,"source":90,"evidence":176},"Show course start dates and more course details",[177,181],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"15347160","lexsys","How are the results ranked? It would be nice to have possibility to specify the course starting date like 'in 7 days', 'in 30 days', etc.",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},[183,194],{"value":184,"source":90,"evidence":185},"How the data is indexed and sourced",[186,190],{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"15350238","gausaauisuain","How do you index the courses? Use an API per provider? Or scrape the pages and do machine learning?",{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"15355768","antoaravinth","Could someone explain how this works? Meaning, I want to understand how the application uses the data from several MOOCs and get the result. Is that they manually build the data…",{"value":195,"source":90,"evidence":196},"How results are ranked",[197],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},[199,206,213],{"value":200,"source":90,"evidence":201},"Class Central",[202],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"15347435","radnam","You might want to check out https:\u002F\u002Fwww.class-central.com which offers search as well as reviews.",{"value":207,"source":90,"evidence":208},"Coorsy",[209],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"15346733","javascripton","You also can try https:\u002F\u002Fcoorsy.com",{"value":214,"source":90,"evidence":215},"elearning.club",[216],{"id":217,"by":218,"text":219},"15347811","skhandkar","You might want to check out https:\u002F\u002Felearning.club. It offers filters by cost, duration and type (eg. Course, Conference presentation and Shows)",{"comments":40,"answered":38,"key":221},[222,223,224],{"id":78,"text":79},{"id":71,"text":72},{"id":225,"text":226},"15348131","Haha, yeah. 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