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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