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why not block all search engines?
by noelchurchill 19y ago
why not block all search engines?
- comatose_kid 19y agoBecause News.YC doesn't have it's own search engine. So I use google to search the site.
- diego 19y agoWhy not solve the real problem and set up a search engine for News.YC? This has other advantages such as controlling what shows up in the results, different ways to sort them, etc. It's easy to do with open-source software such as Solr (lucene.apache.org/solr) or Hounder (hounder.org, shameless plug because it is our product), which powers the wordpress.com site. Edit: it looks like someone already did this: searchyc.com.
- rglullis 19y agoYou must be new here. The day PG & Co adopt some piece of software that is made in Java... well, I can't even finish the sentence.
- brlewis 19y agoPart of the & Co is Paul Buchheit, who wrote some of the news.yc javascript. Paul Buchheit's company friendfeed is using lucene for search.
- rglullis 19y agoi didn't know that. Either way, I think that PG is the king of guy who would rather work on his very special design (staying in Arc-land as long as possible) than adopting systems where you no longer have control. Letting Paul work on the JavaScript makes sense, in this case. PG has no control over client-side code, so he prefers to not bother with it.
- mynameishere 19y agoGoogle uses Java, and since that is evidentally the only acceptable search engine, I'm not sure pg's posited elitism really goes that far.
- rglullis 19y agoI didn't say that PG would refuse to use any system that was developed in Java. What I meant that he would never would put himself in a situation where the application would depend on Java for development, or to add more features. To integrate with Google, you talk HTTP, not Java. To adopt Lucene, you'll have to talk Java. There is quite some difference, isn't it?
- gojomo 19y agoYou can push everything you want indexed into SOLR by HTTP -- so even though it's Java/Lucene you don't have to get your hands dirty.
- rms 19y agoThey use some Java, but a whole lot more Python and C++...
- gus_massa 19y agoUsualy Google gets better results that a custom search engine for your site, because Google also knows the links form other web pages to your site.
- nreece 19y agoDid you not find searchyc.com useful?
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- msg 19y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+your+search+here http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+y... There's no other search.
- kirubakaran 19y ago> There's no other search. http://www.searchyc.com http://www.searchyc.com (edit: I'm not the one who voted you down)
- jsrn 19y agoand http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/
- aston 19y agoThey stopped indexing looong ago.
- jsrn 19y agothanks, I didn't know that! Perhaps they should say so on the page...
- jasonyan 19y agoDone :)
- kirubakaran 19y agoHey can you publish the source code of the search tool?
- jsrn 19y agowow, that was quick:-)
- alex_c 19y ago
- kirubakaran 19y agoGoogling for my name lists my Hacker News profile as one of the top results. I think that is really cool.
- bgutierrez 19y agoThat is cool. My username returns my profile here as the number one hit. I had no idea it would score so highly.
- dangoldin 19y agoNot as cool as mine. My username returns a wikipedia page about some asteroid. Cool stuff.
- jbrun 19y agogoogling my username brings up my hacker profile too
- rokhayakebe 19y agoright on. then implement a search feature