We would like to take this opportunity to promote what we consider an important proposal.
SEARCH ENGINE DEVELOPMENT
The development is being done by 
It is being used by hive.blog, esteem.app (now ecency) and us at peakd.com
PEAKD USAGE
Peakd.com uses it sparingly and we don't push searches heavily in the UI for a few reasons (cost, needs backend improvements and we need to improve our UI). We have considered looking for someone to develop our own in-house system... however good-karma's system though not presently perfect for our needs is far ahead already of anyone starting with elastic-search and with a little work it can get much much better. Maybe some day we have to end up doing our own system but for now this would improve everyone's experience.
So that's why we would love to see it funded.
Presently PeakD makes a few calls for when you do a search and then apply our own algorithm to it to help sort the results a bit better. One of the issues is that it uses the reward $ stat instead of something like reward vests. Using the $ amount gives too much weight to posts written simply during a time when the value of steem/hive was high. So for that reason we do a couple api pulls and try our best to sort the posts a little bit better. Perhaps pulling more sets of posts from the results will improve the results even more however doing lots of api pulls for each search is not ideal since we have a limited amount of API requests we can do each month.
So improvement on the Open Search Engine development would be awesome and less restraint for pulling information will also improve your experience.
SOME DETAILS ABOUT THE PROPOSAL
Original proposal post
Looks like
And a lot of the cost is going to the servers.
Eventually after some development there will likely be a proposal that just covers the server costs.
If you wanna see the code so far: https://github.com/esteemapp/hive2elastic
This is one of the great quotes from the proposal post
"We want to remove those limits and open it up for every app to integrate."
Go vote: https://peakd.com/proposals/114
GETTING CLOSE TO FUNDING
It has some big votes like 
But perhaps many other users don't recognize the user experience benefits it will bring them... so we're giving it some light.
IMPROVEMENT OF PEAKD SEARCH
We have had UI improvement planned for a while now but have been working on other features first.
PROMOTIONS COMING SOON
Presently we are working on a new Promotions system for PeakD much better than the old SteemPeak system... but also search improvement is in the mix for being one of the next features we improve.
UPDATES TO SEARCH EXPERIENCE
It is my personal opinion (
THIS PROPOSAL WILL IMPACT OUR SEARCH DECISIONS
Since search engine UI changes are coming up soon and we'd love to plan for some of the changes that could be possible if this proposal gets funded.
... So again we ask for your support of this proposal by
https://peakd.com/proposals/114