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ycsearch.com

14 points by keven 19y ago

keven 19y ago
I put this together quickly to search yc sites with google cse and found it helpful after using it for a few weeks. In response to discussions at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, I hope you will find it useful until pg implemented the search feature.
- imp 19y ago
  Nice. I like how it searches the text of the links instead of just the titles and comments.
dawie 19y ago
PG is going to sue You...
- deleted 19y ago
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- dawie 19y ago
  After I wrote this comment, I deleted it...
uuilly 19y ago
plug this into a google search: foo site:news.ycombinator.com Most site's search features honk. I use this all the time.
- bootload 19y ago
  '... pg implemented the search feature ... foo site:news.ycombinator.com ...' My thoughts exactly about 5min change with a bit of static html. Not much effort for search. It doesn't have to be permanent. We sure need this functionality, now.
- jey 19y ago
  For some reason, Google doesn't index a lot of the older stuff. I can no longer find some links that I was able to find on news.yc using this technique a month ago. IMHO, PG should at least make the site easy to crawl for Google, or add his own search feature.
nickb 19y ago
You're about three months late: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780
- immad 19y ago
  but he owns a memorable domain and I don't use bookmarks that much for some reason.
- ralph 19y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919 points out that it is quite a bit behind in indexing news.yc posts.
- keven 19y ago
  I wasn't aware of the search feature the Big Head Labs hacked together until recently. Unlike the work Jason has done, ycsearch.com has absolutely no technical achievements (on my part). I spent 30 minutes to put it together because I want to use it. ycsearch.com does provide a different set of results since Google cse will crawl all ycombinator.com and also partial external sites news.yc link to.

14 points by keven 19y ago

keven 19y ago

I put this together quickly to search yc sites with google cse and found it helpful after using it for a few weeks. In response to discussions at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, I hope you will find it useful until pg implemented the search feature.

imp 19y ago
Nice. I like how it searches the text of the links instead of just the titles and comments.

dawie 19y ago

PG is going to sue You...

deleted 19y ago
[deleted]
dawie 19y ago
After I wrote this comment, I deleted it...

uuilly 19y ago

plug this into a google search: foo site:news.ycombinator.com Most site's search features honk. I use this all the time.

bootload 19y ago
'... pg implemented the search feature ... foo site:news.ycombinator.com ...' My thoughts exactly about 5min change with a bit of static html. Not much effort for search. It doesn't have to be permanent. We sure need this functionality, now.
jey 19y ago
For some reason, Google doesn't index a lot of the older stuff. I can no longer find some links that I was able to find on news.yc using this technique a month ago. IMHO, PG should at least make the site easy to crawl for Google, or add his own search feature.

nickb 19y ago

You're about three months late: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780

immad 19y ago
but he owns a memorable domain and I don't use bookmarks that much for some reason.
ralph 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919 points out that it is quite a bit behind in indexing news.yc posts.
keven 19y ago
I wasn't aware of the search feature the Big Head Labs hacked together until recently. Unlike the work Jason has done, ycsearch.com has absolutely no technical achievements (on my part). I spent 30 minutes to put it together because I want to use it. ycsearch.com does provide a different set of results since Google cse will crawl all ycombinator.com and also partial external sites news.yc link to.