3 ms·

How about you collaborate with http://searchyc.com http://searchyc.com and use their index with this interface?

• jackowayed 16y ago
  I'd love that. They'd need to significantly speed Search YC up for that to work though. A search that doesn't require hitting enter but takes 5 seconds to give results isn't very satisfying. I really love Search YC, but it's so slow. I wonder if we could do some kind of kickstarter campaign to get them better infrastructure (assuming better infrastructure would fix it without significant code optimizations). Or maybe someone could donate servers? Maybe lsc, since he runs a hosting company, though his margins are probably fairly low even without giving away hosting. And even if it needs optimizations, if they OSSed it, I bet HN users could make that happen too.
  • what 16y ago
    It is slow sometimes, but their query logs would be useful for query suggestions. Query suggestions should be based on what searches are popular. Not sure if you want to go through the effort of making suggestions yourself though.
• TamDenholm 16y ago
  Had a little play with that site, its nice that it has a JSON service but whenever it made a query it hanged like hell. So like jackowayed said, they'd have to get faster results. One thing you cant fault with using Google search, its fast.