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Y Combinator Web Search Version 1.3 Released

5 points by xirium 18y ago

This version performs phrase search ( http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=%22paul+graham%22 ), boolean search ( http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=-the ), URL search ( http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F ) and the previous version is available as a web service and command line utility ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184707 ).

ajbatac 18y ago
wow. that's a BIG button there.
- bigtoga 18y ago
  Where? I don't see it?
earle 18y ago
http://ofthenow.80concepts.com/feed/1440/monthly/?q=twitter http://ofthenow.80concepts.com/feed/1440/monthly/?q=twitter .... Search any site feed, or monitor live...
jeroen 18y ago
The number of results is not displayed correctly when < 7. An example: http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=taggl http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... For more results, it always says "7 of", even after clicking "More". And larger searches always end at 1023 items: http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=microsoft http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... Oh, and I saw this in the results: "If Iâ€™d only known!" Hope this helps.
- xirium 18y ago
  > The number of results is not displayed correctly when < 7. Doh! The library routine to perform estimates was working fine, the command line utility works fine, but there was a bad assumption between the web interface and the web service. > larger searches always end at 1023 items Many search engines limit to 200 results because some search algorithms become more computationally expensive when finding more data. It also costs more in bandwidth. However, special for you, I've raised the limit to a number much larger than the number of posts in this forum. Your remaining report is due to an interaction with data sanitisation and Unicode. > Hope this helps. Most certainly. Thank you for your concise and constructive report.

5 points by xirium 18y ago

ajbatac 18y ago

wow. that's a BIG button there.

bigtoga 18y ago
Where? I don't see it?

earle 18y ago

http://ofthenow.80concepts.com/feed/1440/monthly/?q=twitter http://ofthenow.80concepts.com/feed/1440/monthly/?q=twitter .... Search any site feed, or monitor live...

jeroen 18y ago

The number of results is not displayed correctly when < 7. An example: http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=taggl http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... For more results, it always says "7 of", even after clicking "More". And larger searches always end at 1023 items: http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=microsoft http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... Oh, and I saw this in the results: "If Iâ€™d only known!" Hope this helps.

xirium 18y ago
> The number of results is not displayed correctly when < 7. Doh! The library routine to perform estimates was working fine, the command line utility works fine, but there was a bad assumption between the web interface and the web service. > larger searches always end at 1023 items Many search engines limit to 200 results because some search algorithms become more computationally expensive when finding more data. It also costs more in bandwidth. However, special for you, I've raised the limit to a number much larger than the number of posts in this forum. Your remaining report is due to an interaction with data sanitisation and Unicode. > Hope this helps. Most certainly. Thank you for your concise and constructive report.