IMO your algorithms can be a starting point, but your results would be a lot more useful if actual humans then did a second pass and added various pros and cons to the most popular queries to enhance their trustworthiness and level of detail.
The algorithm on its own is not working well... at all. It's no better, and often worse, than generic "best of" queries in any other search engine. More details in my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500543
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IMO your algorithms can be a starting point, but your results would be a lot more useful if actual humans then did a second pass and added various pros and cons to the most popular queries to enhance their trustworthiness and level of detail.
The algorithm on its own is not working well... at all. It's no better, and often worse, than generic "best of" queries in any other search engine. More details in my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500543
We were hoping that the voting system would allow for user based manual refinement. We'll see. I'm not sure the users will be that invested.