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SearchYC 2.0 Released

40 points by chengmi 18y ago

Readmore 18y ago
Congrats, it looks great.
xirium 18y ago
Searching searchyc.com for common single-words has improved greatly. Searching for "startup" previously took more than 30 seconds. However, you're still slower than http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ for multi-word searches.
- chengmi 18y ago
  We're running on very limited resources. But the good thing is we can now throw hardware at the problem (if we had the money to do so) and performance would improve. I couldn't say that with the old system. Isn't http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ a wrapper for Google search? I'm searching for "demo day techcrunch" and soho returns no results. http://www.searchyc.com/demo+day+techcrunch http://www.searchyc.com/demo+day+techcrunch returns 11 results.
  - xirium 18y ago
    http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper. It is 8KB of web services with data held locally which is a proof-of-concept for a larger search system. http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ also runs on limited resources, namely virtual hosting. Furthermore, we were indexing slowly over the past 30 days and therefore a full index wasn't collected until this morning. A complete and current index will be public from Sunday onwards. How about a bake-off this weekend?
    - xirium 18y ago
      To demonstrate that http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper, the dataset has been made available. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 for details. Is this weekend good for a site search bake-off or do you need more time?
  - e1ven 18y ago
    What are you running on for Hardware? Can the service index across multiple machines?
    - chengmi 18y ago
      We're running on a Linode virtual server. Yes, we can index across multiple machines, but we aren't currently.
- boucher 18y ago
  They may be slower, but they return more results. Also, the interface is better -- I don't want to have to go to News.YC to see the context of the result.
kyro 18y ago
Are you raising venture capital? A name like ycnuzsear.chr would work a bit better too. Great service. Thanks.
rantfoil 18y ago
Congrats on the new release!
prakash 18y ago
This things rocks! good job guys!
andr 18y ago
Yay! I can search for URLs now!
raju 18y ago
That is probably one of the sites I hit on a daily basis coz invariably I am looking for an opinion, and HN is probably a good place to start, be it books, music, a startup in a particular sector of the market. Thanks guys! Really appreciate the good work.
jeroen 18y ago
I expect something called SearchYC to be the authority on finding things at YC. Pointing me to google when you find no results should be useless and detracts from that authority. That's all the critique I can come up with though, looks great.
kirubakaran 18y ago
pg, once you made a comment about working on search. Until that is done, can you link to SearchYC.com from here?
- kirubakaran 18y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96553 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96553 105 days ago :)
ralph 18y ago
Very handy, and an improvement on how I remember it. It would be nice to be able to search for "that post foo made to which bar replied". Often you remember the structure of the conversation rather than a unique word or two.
suboptimal 18y ago
Everybody Wang Cheng tonight! Very useful--nice job, guys.
suboptimal 18y ago
Hey guys, the typo in my search "slicehost\" generated: OMG... You killed the server! We'll get right on it...

40 points by chengmi 18y ago

Congrats, it looks great.

Searching searchyc.com for common single-words has improved greatly. Searching for "startup" previously took more than 30 seconds. However, you're still slower than http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ for multi-word searches.

chengmi 18y ago
We're running on very limited resources. But the good thing is we can now throw hardware at the problem (if we had the money to do so) and performance would improve. I couldn't say that with the old system. Isn't http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ a wrapper for Google search? I'm searching for "demo day techcrunch" and soho returns no results. http://www.searchyc.com/demo+day+techcrunch http://www.searchyc.com/demo+day+techcrunch returns 11 results.
- xirium 18y ago
  http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper. It is 8KB of web services with data held locally which is a proof-of-concept for a larger search system. http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ also runs on limited resources, namely virtual hosting. Furthermore, we were indexing slowly over the past 30 days and therefore a full index wasn't collected until this morning. A complete and current index will be public from Sunday onwards. How about a bake-off this weekend?
  - xirium 18y ago
    To demonstrate that http://y.soho.lt/ http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper, the dataset has been made available. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 for details. Is this weekend good for a site search bake-off or do you need more time?
- e1ven 18y ago
  What are you running on for Hardware? Can the service index across multiple machines?
  - chengmi 18y ago
    We're running on a Linode virtual server. Yes, we can index across multiple machines, but we aren't currently.
boucher 18y ago
They may be slower, but they return more results. Also, the interface is better -- I don't want to have to go to News.YC to see the context of the result.

kyro 18y ago

Are you raising venture capital? A name like ycnuzsear.chr would work a bit better too. Great service. Thanks.

rantfoil 18y ago

Congrats on the new release!

prakash 18y ago

This things rocks! good job guys!

andr 18y ago

Yay! I can search for URLs now!

raju 18y ago

That is probably one of the sites I hit on a daily basis coz invariably I am looking for an opinion, and HN is probably a good place to start, be it books, music, a startup in a particular sector of the market. Thanks guys! Really appreciate the good work.

jeroen 18y ago

I expect something called SearchYC to be the authority on finding things at YC. Pointing me to google when you find no results should be useless and detracts from that authority. That's all the critique I can come up with though, looks great.

kirubakaran 18y ago

pg, once you made a comment about working on search. Until that is done, can you link to SearchYC.com from here?

kirubakaran 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96553 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96553 105 days ago :)

ralph 18y ago

Very handy, and an improvement on how I remember it. It would be nice to be able to search for "that post foo made to which bar replied". Often you remember the structure of the conversation rather than a unique word or two.

suboptimal 18y ago

Everybody Wang Cheng tonight! Very useful--nice job, guys.

suboptimal 18y ago

Hey guys, the typo in my search "slicehost\" generated: OMG... You killed the server! We'll get right on it...