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Is it supposed to be a general purpose search engine or just something that searches a subset of popular sites? I tried to search for "hacker news" and got a l

by sbarre 13y ago

Is it supposed to be a general purpose search engine or just something that searches a subset of popular sites? I tried to search for "hacker news" and got a lot of news articles in the results.. Not saying that's bad, just curious.. Maybe you can talk about how you are generating your results?

kritter 13y ago
Firstly, thanks very much for taking a look! Its a general purpose search engine. To answer your other question, a set of results is drawn from our own crawler. Other sets of results are drawn from different APIs (e.g., wikipedia) that we use. Right now, results that we could term as "News" results come from a specific set of sites (e.g., CNN, BBC, engadget, etc.). And you are right, there certain queries generate a lot of news results with their respective dates.