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I don't understand why hn needs its own search engine. What are the advantages of using hnsearch compared to using google with 'site:news.ycombinator.com'?
by andyjohnson0 14y ago
I don't understand why hn needs its own search engine. What are the advantages of using hnsearch compared to using google with 'site:news.ycombinator.com'?
- danso 14y ago...because Google doesn't offer site specific options such as sort by date/points?
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoGoogle do offer sort by date but it doesn't work terribly well IME. You could also do a rough number range search ("100..1000") that might help capture higher value comments but in practice is probably too rough to be useful.
- brudgers 14y agoReasons might range from the aesthetic: the "search language" of the Google Search Engine is imperative, not functional; to the paranoid: Google might datamine searches from YC company IP addresses; to the utterly practical (and perhaps likely): a toy search engine is a good way to know enough about search engines to guide and evaluate a YC company working in that area. Then again, it may just scratch an itch as an inhouse tool.
- sherjilozair 14y agoGoogle would only search the discussion threads, and not the content on the website. What I'm pushing for, is we can easily extract a 'credible' subset of the web and only search that web. That subset is the set of links that HNers have posted to HN, sorted in priority by the number of votes they have returned. Also, as danso mentioned, HNsearch could use some function of points and date, to rank the results.