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How about adding this to the header or footer? <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombin
by johnrob 16y ago
How about adding this to the header or footer?
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com> Search</a>
- pg 16y agoOk, I'll try it for a while. It really doesn't seem like it's worth adding a link for something so trivial though.
- jacquesm 16y agoThanks! that was quick!
- matt1 16y agoIf it was trivial, there wouldn't be so many questions about how to search the site :) But thanks. Edit: Or maybe if you're the type of person who can't figure it out, you're not the type of person who should be posting on HackerNews in the first place?
- daeken 16y agoAnyone that has content that's interesting to hackers is "the type of person who should be posting on HackerNews". I love this community (and hacking in general) in large part because it's not filled with that sort of elitism; anyone who's able to contribute in a positive way is welcome.
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- Aegean 16y agoAny time I see something valuable on HN I quickly bookmark it so that I can read it later on without the hassle to search it. Search is a hassle on YC. I think we need a solution especially having been used to quick and effective google search for almost anything.
- jacquesm 16y agoThat's what searchyc.com is all about. Google is a good solution, searchyc.com is even better.
- bootload 16y ago"... searchyc.com is even better. ..." I'll second that. searchyc is my HN search of choice. Works every time. Why are users complaining about finding things?
- trop 16y agoIn a sense, HN is itself a bookmark site once logged in. That is, by looking at the "saved stories" link from my profile, I see what I've upvoted. Hence an incentive to upvote not just good items, but items I want to look at multiple times. (No such "saved comments" index exists, though?)
- jacquesm 16y agoYes, unless of course your 'saved stories' link has more than 210 entries on it. edit: Hey, wow! This seems to have been quietly fixed, I really missed this and I'm pretty happy it's repaired.
- rmundo 16y agoI compulsively bookmark anything interesting I read on the net these days. Nothing is as annoying as wanting to refer to something I've read before and only able to find it again after a huge googling effort.
- ledger123 16y agoThe easiest way to bookmark HN articles is to leave a comment.
- jacquesm 16y agoThat's not correct, the easiest way to bookmark is to upvote. The articles then end under your 'saved' list (see your profile links) and you can find them again later. These lists were limited in length until recently but it seems that that has now been fixed and you can go all the way back to when you joined HN.
- tzury 16y agothis might be better http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014927534610857777870:r3kw3vs7gmo http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014927534610857777870:r3kw...
- hsuresh 16y agoWould be great if you shared the number of hits to that url after about a month or so.
- frossie 16y agoSince searchyc do such a nice job, it seems a shame to throw the link to google instead. But, it's not my site...
- Herring 16y agoFor convenience, maybe that link should be http://www.google.com/search?&domains=news.ycombinator.com&sitesearch=news.ycombinator.com&q=hacker%20news http://www.google.com/search?&domains=news.ycombinator.c...
- jacquesm 16y agoFor convenience it should be a box with a button posting to searchyc.com, it's much better at searching HN than google. But something is better than nothing.