I haven’t found this to be exactly the case - I recently worked with an engineer for more than a month tuning Elasticsearch (which required non-trivial changes to our catalog service). (It also took a good amount of effort to coordinate these changes across devices.)
Like Goodreads, we have a fairly constrained catalog and we probably get a similar amount of queries.
The search results are now much, much better, but ES has a pretty poor edit distance / fuzziness algorithm so they still aren’t perfect.
Like Goodreads, we have a fairly constrained catalog and we probably get a similar amount of queries.
The search results are now much, much better, but ES has a pretty poor edit distance / fuzziness algorithm so they still aren’t perfect.