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Something new for the New Year: SearchYC.com

48 points by chengmi 19y ago

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kyro 19y ago
nycs.bigheadlabs.com But this is nice, too.
- nivi 19y ago
  Based on my searches (for venture hacks of course), searchyc has many more results. chengmi, this is a really nice utility.
  - danielha 19y ago
    It actually stopped indexing news.yc in the summer time (some minor thing tripped it up, but it hasn't been tended to). We should probably put a message up telling people to stop using it, or link to this new one. Nice work.
henryw 19y ago
nice, i can remember that name
pius 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=82177 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=82177
- dcurtis 19y ago
  Not everyone uses Firefox...
  - pius 19y ago
    True indeed, but (1) the link is still germane and (2) it's an OpenSearch plugin, so it's not actually Firefox-specific.
  - joeguilmette 19y ago
    unfortunately you're correct. all the more reason to develop firefox-specific software!
    - dcurtis 19y ago
      Sadly, Firefox still sucks on the Mac. I'll use Safari until Firefox is better.
      - aditya 19y ago
        ff3 beta2 is rock solid on the mac!
some 19y ago
http://google.com/search?q=something+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com http://google.com/search?q=something+site%3Anews.ycombinator...
edw519 19y ago
Very good. Thank you!
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nickb 19y ago
Someone also came up with this one: http://ycsearch.com/ http://ycsearch.com/
- mynameishere 19y ago
  I guess I better rethink my general-purpose search engine idea: loogleg.com
chengmi 19y ago
I hope you guys find this website useful. I know there are a bunch of other YC searches out there, but we're trying to improve on all of them. 1. nycs.bigheadlabs.com - a good one created by the Disqus guys, but they stopped updating the index quite awhile ago, so all of the search results are stale. 2. trk7.com/yc - Another YC search, but the interface is really confusing. 3. ycsearch.com, Google - Indexes insanely fast and has an excellent relevancy algorithm, but you can't sort by post date or points. 4. Firefox toolbars, etc - I haven't tried them, but I assume it just uses a Google custom search. 5. SearchYC.com - full text searching, 15 minute updates, and a cool user-search feature (try searching for your username (case-sensitive)). We also enable sorting results/submissions/comments by relevancy (sucks), YC points, or post date. What we really want to do is to start generating some user stats and interesting queries such as "top points per submission", "most linked-to websites", etc. If you're interested in one, post it here! Anyways, we want you guys (YC users) to help us decide where this goes. The sky's the limit! Happy New Year's!
- danw 19y ago
  Nice one. Is there a way of searching only submissions or only comments?
  - chengmi 19y ago
    No, would you like to? You can search a user's submissions AND comments, though: http://searchyc.com/danw+submissions+or+comments http://searchyc.com/danw+submissions+or+comments
bayareaguy 19y ago
Just tried your site with Opera Version 9.50 Beta Build 4506 Platform MacOS X System 10.5.1 The search wouldn't work at all. Then I enabled JavaScript and it seemed to work better. If you need JavaScript, you should advertise that fact. By default I only enable JavaScript for selected sites.
- chengmi 19y ago
  Fixed--you can turn off JavaScript now, if you want.
webwright 19y ago
Cool stuff. More than that, I finally get to know who alaskamiller is. I lived in Alaska for 10 years and see him commenting all over the intertubes in the exact same places where I tend to lurk.
- alaskamiller 19y ago
  hi tony. would that be techcruch, valleywag, and reddit? ;)
  - webwright 19y ago
    I will not admit to reading Valleywag ever. Shame on you. ;-)

48 points by chengmi 19y ago

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kyro 19y ago

nycs.bigheadlabs.com But this is nice, too.

nivi 19y ago
Based on my searches (for venture hacks of course), searchyc has many more results. chengmi, this is a really nice utility.
- danielha 19y ago
  It actually stopped indexing news.yc in the summer time (some minor thing tripped it up, but it hasn't been tended to). We should probably put a message up telling people to stop using it, or link to this new one. Nice work.

henryw 19y ago

nice, i can remember that name

pius 19y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=82177 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=82177

dcurtis 19y ago
Not everyone uses Firefox...
- pius 19y ago
  True indeed, but (1) the link is still germane and (2) it's an OpenSearch plugin, so it's not actually Firefox-specific.
- joeguilmette 19y ago
  unfortunately you're correct. all the more reason to develop firefox-specific software!
  - dcurtis 19y ago
    Sadly, Firefox still sucks on the Mac. I'll use Safari until Firefox is better.
    - aditya 19y ago
      ff3 beta2 is rock solid on the mac!

some 19y ago

http://google.com/search?q=something+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com http://google.com/search?q=something+site%3Anews.ycombinator...

edw519 19y ago

Very good. Thank you!

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nickb 19y ago

Someone also came up with this one: http://ycsearch.com/ http://ycsearch.com/

mynameishere 19y ago
I guess I better rethink my general-purpose search engine idea: loogleg.com

chengmi 19y ago

I hope you guys find this website useful. I know there are a bunch of other YC searches out there, but we're trying to improve on all of them. 1. nycs.bigheadlabs.com - a good one created by the Disqus guys, but they stopped updating the index quite awhile ago, so all of the search results are stale. 2. trk7.com/yc - Another YC search, but the interface is really confusing. 3. ycsearch.com, Google - Indexes insanely fast and has an excellent relevancy algorithm, but you can't sort by post date or points. 4. Firefox toolbars, etc - I haven't tried them, but I assume it just uses a Google custom search. 5. SearchYC.com - full text searching, 15 minute updates, and a cool user-search feature (try searching for your username (case-sensitive)). We also enable sorting results/submissions/comments by relevancy (sucks), YC points, or post date. What we really want to do is to start generating some user stats and interesting queries such as "top points per submission", "most linked-to websites", etc. If you're interested in one, post it here! Anyways, we want you guys (YC users) to help us decide where this goes. The sky's the limit! Happy New Year's!

danw 19y ago
Nice one. Is there a way of searching only submissions or only comments?
- chengmi 19y ago
  No, would you like to? You can search a user's submissions AND comments, though: http://searchyc.com/danw+submissions+or+comments http://searchyc.com/danw+submissions+or+comments

bayareaguy 19y ago

Just tried your site with Opera Version 9.50 Beta Build 4506 Platform MacOS X System 10.5.1 The search wouldn't work at all. Then I enabled JavaScript and it seemed to work better. If you need JavaScript, you should advertise that fact. By default I only enable JavaScript for selected sites.

chengmi 19y ago
Fixed--you can turn off JavaScript now, if you want.

webwright 19y ago

Cool stuff. More than that, I finally get to know who alaskamiller is. I lived in Alaska for 10 years and see him commenting all over the intertubes in the exact same places where I tend to lurk.

alaskamiller 19y ago
hi tony. would that be techcruch, valleywag, and reddit? ;)
- webwright 19y ago
  I will not admit to reading Valleywag ever. Shame on you. ;-)