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Why 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 way
by diego 19y ago
Why 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.