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Why doesn't HN have native search?

• iamwil 15y ago
  cuz pg doesn't need to work on it, when lots of us do.
• stevenj 15y ago
  I may be wrong about this, but I thought I heard PG say that a YC company was working on a solution.
  • dcosson 15y ago
    I'm sure there are multiple alternative solutions, but hnsearch.com is a pretty good one. Written by the Octopart guys and runs off of ThriftDB, the search and database backend that they wrote for their site.
• nandemo 15y ago
  Basically pg doesn't think it's important and doesn't want to do it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329334 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329334
  • cincinnatus 15y ago
    He replied not only that isn't important but also implied that there is some big data issue here. Which is incorrect. There are multiple open-source solutions for this 'problem' as many people on here could attest (not to mention configure). Obviously if it can be done over the wire it could be done even better (cheaper/faster) local to the server.