Call me old fashioned, but I firmly believe that two searches of the same website for:

* the exact same search terms
* in the exact same order and
* with the exact same formatting

in the same session of the same browser tab, separated only by a few seconds of time, should not produce:

* different sets of results or
* sets of results sorted in different, apparently random orders.

Like, how do you even manage to do that! The search and sorting algorithms you'd have to write are either the polar opposite of simple and speedy, incorporate a RNG, or both, all three of which would earn an F in any CompSci class.

Follow

@arielmt could be streaming from a dataset that is constantly in flux, which considering regular spiders and algorithmic tuning doesn't seem too unbelievable

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Pixietown

Small server part of the pixie.town infrastructure. Registration is closed.