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About
stack.horizobu.com is a search engine for the various Stack Exchange question and answer sites. horizobu assists you in your search by suggesting related query terms. The query terms allow you to explore a topic that you are unfamiliar with and therefore helps you to find the answer to your question. You can collect results and share them with your friends; e.g. a results for "jquery visible".
stack.horizobu.com is designed for people that are looking for a dedicated search engine for the Stack Exchange sites.
Web Site
Platform
Any platform that runs a reasonably new browser.
Contact
- Idea & Concept: Sam Zurcher, Werner Hartmann (Wettingen, Switzerland)
- Design: Beate Niedhart, Florian Stolzenhain, Oliver Spieker (fuklab Berlin, Germany)
- Business: Andreas Feuz (Zürich, Switzerland)
- Contributions: Michael Hielscher, Nando Stöcklin, Diana Jurjevic, Oliver Ott, Raimond Reichert, Ruedi Arnold
The horizobu team can be reached with the feedback form.
Code
horizobu is written in Java (using Spring) and Javascript (using JQuery and Google Closure Library / Google Closure Compiler) and makes use of the publicly available Stack Exchange data dump. The data dump is processed using Hadoop and the result is stored in s3. Hosted on AWS using scalr.net / nginx / Tomcat / memcached.