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why does PG leave out the search feature on HN?

• sdfx 18y ago
  maybe because it's not so hard to use "site:..." on google.
  • cstejerean 18y ago
    Using site: on google is a terrible alternative to search on YC. Google's ranking algorithms might work for the web at large but it doesn't work so well for searching HN. SearchYC does a pretty good job at searching YCombinator and I would like for such a feature to be integrated into this site, but I'm guessing PG has better things to do with his time.
    • silentbicycle 18y ago
      Also, searching via google doesn't always work well because there are redundant copies of most comments on both the relevant post and the commenter's thread page.
  • silentbicycle 18y ago
    I still think a "Search" link at the bottom of the front page (or a note in the FAQ) would be good, whether it points to searchyc.com, "google site:news.ycombinator.com", etc. People probably only need to be told how to search once, but searching for how to search is a catch-22.
  • rob 18y ago
    That's absolutely horrible, since Google indexes individual replies here and often times you end up clicking 10 links that all belong to one post.