Search mews by text content

[mattyg]

We will have to think about what the best approach is: use link indexes for all words within a mew, or add support for "service provider nodes" to offer elastic search indexing as a service.

Additionally, we should distinguish in search results which mews are "in-network" or "out-of-network" i.e. authored by people you are following or not.

[bierlingm]

Here are some thoughts to build on what you're describing here.

Search Experience

• integrated into the search function that already returns users
• maybe the search bar shows two lines with one result each (if any available) for in-network users & mews, and global network of users & mews
• maybe you can tune the search to be 1-n steps out from your immediate network
• you should probably be able to search both just your followers and just those you follow

Ideas

• Agents build an index for all words they have used in their own mews --> we can use that also for the word cloud to display on their profile (if we choose to implement that)
• Agents share their indices with each other when they follow each other and save them

I think generally speaking I'd like to believe that being guided by the principles by which the physical/social world works will help us produce some really cool dynamics. For example, the frequent thing of "do you know anyone in subject XYZ (e.g. web design)" I find myself asking friends – key word there being "asking".

There are other ideas I have but that's a starting point.