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Ask HN: Is there a way to search HN articles, by their content, than by title
HN Search, I believe, only shows the results, those that match the title-string. Is there a way that we can search stories submitted in Hacker News?
- ColinWright 15y agoSpeaking purely as a user with no privileged status ... To the best of my knowledge you can search the material that is hosted on Hacker News: link titles; "Ask HN"; comments; etc. However, if someone submits a link to an external site, you cannot search here for the content on that site. If someone submits a link to an external page that contains the string "HoogleFleeber", no HN search will find that article (unless the content is duplicated in a comment). And no, HNSearch does not only search within titles, it also searches comments and text within submissions. Very shortly it will index this page and you will be able to use it to search for "HoogleFleeber". I'm not sure why you think otherwise. Pretty much every search I try turns up text within comments. I hope that's clear.
- sravfeyn 15y agoThanks for confirming! It would be great if we can search the content also, by duplicating the content only for search purposes.Let me add that feature request then.
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- sravfeyn 15y agoI mean, you confirmed that HNSearch only searches through comments and titles not content!
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- angrisha 15y agoyou can use google by typing the following in the search box of Google: Search string site:news.ycombinator.com
- sravfeyn 15y agobut that also gives the results if the search string matches the title, not content!