Both the #Ecency and #PeakD platforms have great ways to help their users search for content on the Hive blockchain.
This is a relatively short post highlighting the significant differences between the two search engines. To learn more about any of the two, please visit Ecency Search and PeakD Search.
| Activity | Ecency search | PeakD search | The "winner" |
|---|---|---|---|
| Searching for users | Searching for posts and/or comments on Ecency also displays Hive accounts whose username and/or description match the search term | Hive accounts can be searched for directly on PeakD | PeakD |
| Searching only for posts and/or comments with at least $0.02 payout | Posts and/or comments with less than $0.02 total rewards can be hidden from search results | none | Ecency |
Searching for badges (Hive accounts whose usernames start with @badge-) | Ecency may sometimes show badge accounts along with other personal or community Hive accounts | PeakD Search can be used to directly search for Hive badge accounts, whether official on PeakD or otherwise | PeakD |
| Searching for comments | Comments can be searched either separately from posts or together with posts | Comments can be searched only from PeakD Snaps | Ecency |
| Searching for post collections | none | "Collection of Posts" or "Curated Collections" can be searched on PeakD | PeakD |
| Searching for microblog "posts" | Microblog "posts" (which are technically comments on the Hive blockchain) can be searched if the user specifies the correct tags (such as #snaps for PeakD Snaps, #waves for Ecency Waves, and #leothreads for InLeo Threads, such that it is possible to search with several tags at the same time) | Only PeakD Snaps can be searched from | Ecency |
Some differences are relatively minor, so they aren't included on this comparison.
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