diff --git a/oh_queue/static/css/style.css b/oh_queue/static/css/style.css
index 1397b89..4971859 100644
--- a/oh_queue/static/css/style.css
+++ b/oh_queue/static/css/style.css
@@ -315,6 +315,13 @@ hr {
   margin-bottom: 10px;
 }
 
+/* Piazza Search Experiment */
+
+.piazza-vote {
+  margin-top: -5px;
+}
+
+
 /* Mostly stolen from offline.js */
 
 .offline {
diff --git a/oh_queue/static/js/components/description_box.js b/oh_queue/static/js/components/description_box.js
index cd7cca8..6a9bb0e 100644
--- a/oh_queue/static/js/components/description_box.js
+++ b/oh_queue/static/js/components/description_box.js
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ class DescriptionBox extends React.Component {
     super(props);
     this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
     this.submit = this.submit.bind(this);
+
+    this.piazzaFeedback = this.piazzaFeedback.bind(this);
+    this.searchPiazza = this.searchPiazza.bind(this);
+
+    this.searchPiazza()
   }
 
   handleChange(event) {
@@ -14,18 +19,75 @@ class DescriptionBox extends React.Component {
   submit() {
     let ticket = this.props.ticket;
     app.makeRequest('describe', {'id': ticket.id, 'description': this.newDescription} );
+    // Search Piazza if available
+    this.searchPiazza(this.newDescription);
     this.newDescription = null;
     this.setState(this.props.state); // force a render
   }
 
+  piazzaFeedback(e, postId, semester, vote) {
+    let {state, ticket} = this.props;
+    e.persist() // Use the event in the async callback.
+    axios.post(`https://oh-help.cs61a.org/api/v1/algolia/vote`, {
+      user: this.state.currentUser.hash,
+      post: postId,
+      semester: semester,
+      assignment: ticket.assignment,
+      isStaff: isStaff(state),
+      question: ticket.question,
+      ticketTime: ticket.created,
+      ticketStatus: ticket.status,
+      location: ticket.location,
+      description: ticket.description,
+      vote: vote
+    }).then(res => {
+      app.addMessage("Thanks for your feedback!", 'success');
+    });
+  }
+
+  searchPiazza(description) {
+    let ticket = this.props.ticket;
+    let assgn = ticket.assignment.replace('Project', 'Proj').replace('Homework', 'HW');
+    let assignment = assgn + " Q" + ticket.question
+    let query = encodeURIComponent(assignment)
+    let user = encodeURIComponent(this.props.state.currentUser.hash)
+
+    if (description) {
+      query += encodeURIComponent(' ' + description);
+    }
+
+    axios.get(`https://oh-help.cs61a.org/api/v1/algolia/search?query=` + query + '&user=' + user)
+      .then(res => {
+        this.piazzaResults = []
+        var post;
+        for (var i in res.data['results']) {
+          if (i <= 4) {
+            post = res.data['results'][i];
+            this.piazzaResults.push(<div>
+              <a href={post.url}> {post.subject} </a>
+              <small>({post.semester})</small>
+              <div className="btn-toolbar btn-group pull-right piazza-vote" role="toolbar" aria-label="Rating">
+                <div className="btn btn-default btn-small" onClick={(e) => this.piazzaFeedback(e, post.qid, post.semester, 'up')} role="group" aria-label="Thumbs Up">👍</div>
+                <div className="btn btn-default btn-small" onClick={(e) => this.piazzaFeedback(e, post.qid, post.semester, 'down')} role="group" aria-label="Thumbs Down">👎</div>
+              </div>
+              <hr></hr>
+            </div>)
+          }
+        }
+        this.setState(this.props.state); // force a render
+      });
+  }
+
   render() {
     let {state, ticket} = this.props;
     let staff = isStaff(state);
 
-
     if (staff) {
       return (
-        <p className="ticket-view-desc">{ticket.description ? ticket.description : <i>No description</i>}</p>
+        <div>
+          <p className="ticket-view-desc">{ticket.description ? ticket.description : <i>No description</i>}</p>
+          { this.piazzaResults }
+        </div>
       );
     } else {
       return (
@@ -34,6 +96,10 @@ class DescriptionBox extends React.Component {
           <textarea className="description-box" defaultValue={ticket.description} onChange={this.handleChange}
           rows="5" placeholder="It would be helpful if you could describe your issue. For example, &quot;I have a SyntaxError in my ___ function. I've tried using ____ and ____.&quot;"  />
           {this.newDescription ? <button onClick={this.submit} className="description-button btn btn-default btn-lg btn-block"> Save Description </button> : null}
+          {this.piazzaResults ? <div>
+                                  <p> While you are waiting - check out these resources: </p>
+                                  { this.piazzaResults }
+                                </div> : null}
         </div>
       );
     }
diff --git a/oh_queue/static/js/state.js b/oh_queue/static/js/state.js
index 3d8dcf1..9301d6f 100644
--- a/oh_queue/static/js/state.js
+++ b/oh_queue/static/js/state.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ type User = {
   name: string,
   shortName: string,
   isStaff: boolean,
+  hash: string
 };
 
 type Ticket = {
diff --git a/oh_queue/templates/default.html b/oh_queue/templates/default.html
index e93917d..0f5694d 100644
--- a/oh_queue/templates/default.html
+++ b/oh_queue/templates/default.html
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
     </script>
   </head>
   <body>
-    {% block header %}{% endblock %}
-    {% block body %}{% endblock %}
+
+  {% block header %}{% endblock %}
+  {% block body %}{% endblock %}
 
 
   <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@
   <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babel-polyfill/6.16.0/polyfill.min.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.15.1/moment.min.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/push.js/0.0.12/push.min.js"></script>
+  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/0.15.3/axios.min.js"></script>
   <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/classnames/2.2.5/index.min.js"></script>
 
   <!-- Should be loaded before common.js -->
diff --git a/oh_queue/views.py b/oh_queue/views.py
index 5c3635e..8ffa250 100644
--- a/oh_queue/views.py
+++ b/oh_queue/views.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import functools
 import collections
 import pytz
+from hashlib import md5
 
 from flask import render_template, url_for
 from flask_login import current_user
@@ -11,12 +12,14 @@
 from oh_queue.models import Ticket, TicketStatus, TicketEvent, TicketEventType
 
 def user_json(user):
+    email = user.email.encode('utf-8')
     return {
         'id': user.id,
-        'email': user.email,
+        'email': email,
         'name': user.name,
         'shortName': user.short_name,
         'isStaff': user.is_staff,
+        'hash': md5(email).hexdigest()
     }
 
 def student_json(user):