I didn't mean to incite Google v/s DuckDuckGo war by posting this page. I once had an idea of having a smart Hacker News search. The idea is that the full web m

I didn't mean to incite Google v/s DuckDuckGo war by posting this page. I once had an idea of having a smart Hacker News search. The idea is that the full web might have too much noise. Hacker News serves to be a collection of webpages that are interesting to us, and are intelligent. Moreover, each of them have a rating associated with them, and we don't need back-link analysis to rank them. If I search for startup ideas in Google(full web) or in Hacker News(the interesting subset of the web), I would have a much better result in the latter, that will ensure that only those articles come that have been 'approved' by the HN community, and not noise and fraud that Google might have picked up. Now, current hacker news searches like site:news.ycombinator.com or hnsearch fail to do this. I'm not just interested in things with this domain name, or doing exact string matches. I want to Search, and all the algorithms and techniques that made a proper search engine like magic. What hnsearch is doing is basically grep. This DDG plugin is the closest approximation to my idea, but still not perfect. Hopefully, some day I will find from my busy semester schedule and make something awesome from this idea and show you guys. :)