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PG: Thinking of adding a search facility to news.yc?
It doesn't have to be something like pagerank, just a simple text match would work?
- aaroneous 19y agoIt has been requested a few times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 I agree with you, I think it's something news.yc really needs.
- yagibear 19y agoAnd workarounds have been suggested a few times: http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ http://ycsearch.com/ http://ycsearch.com/
- sethjohn 19y agoMy problem was that I knew I wanted to search, and I knew that workarounds had been posted...but I couldn't figure out how to search through YCnews to find the searchers!
- daniel-cussen 19y agoAny kind of search would be great.
- yubrew 19y agoThere's also http://www.ycsearch.com http://www.ycsearch.com which does a decent job.
- ivankirigin 19y agois that just "search terms" site:http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com ?
- paulgb 19y agoActually it uses Google coop, but the basic idea is the same.
- pg 19y agoI'm getting one of the startups in this batch to write it for us, using their product.
- shiro 19y agoThen there's little reason to hold back, I think. It's a good opportunity for them to test on a moderately-sized environment with real users, right?
- pg 19y agoThey're not holding back. Their product just isn't done yet. The startups in the current batch are only 7 weeks old.
- shiro 19y agoOh, OK. I thought the demand of the search feature was obvious, so the reason you asked here was to see if there were enough demand to spend your time on the feature. To answer the original question, yes, even simple word search would be great.
- sabhishek 19y agoYeah, thats will be really a nice thing to have for ycnews. Looking for a piece in the archive is not convenient always.
- henning 19y agothis is why having your marginal language of choice target a mainstream platform like the JVM or the CLR is nice - you can always use all the great existing libraries (Lucene, for example) while only slightly dirtying your code.