ycsearch.com

by keven • 19 years ago

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keven2• 19 years ago

I put this together quickly to search yc sites with google cse and found it helpful after using it for a few weeks. In response to discussions at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, I hope you will find it useful until pg implemented the search feature.

imp• 19 years ago

Nice. I like how it searches the text of the links instead of just the titles and comments.

dawie2• 19 years ago

PG is going to sue You...

dawie2• 19 years ago

After I wrote this comment, I deleted it...

uuilly• 19 years ago

plug this into a google search:

foo site:news.ycombinator.com

Most site's search features honk. I use this all the time.

bootload• 19 years ago

'... pg implemented the search feature ... foo site:news.ycombinator.com ...'

My thoughts exactly about 5min change with a bit of static html. Not much effort for search. It doesn't have to be permanent. We sure need this functionality, now.

jey• 19 years ago

For some reason, Google doesn't index a lot of the older stuff. I can no longer find some links that I was able to find on news.yc using this technique a month ago. IMHO, PG should at least make the site easy to crawl for Google, or add his own search feature.

nickb• 19 years ago

You're about three months late: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780

immad• 19 years ago

but he owns a memorable domain and I don't use bookmarks that much for some reason.

ralph• 19 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919 points out that it is quite a bit behind in indexing news.yc posts.

keven2• 19 years ago

I wasn't aware of the search feature the Big Head Labs hacked together until recently. Unlike the work Jason has done, ycsearch.com has absolutely no technical achievements (on my part). I spent 30 minutes to put it together because I want to use it. ycsearch.com does provide a different set of results since Google cse will crawl all ycombinator.com and also partial external sites news.yc link to.

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