Something new for the New Year: SearchYC.com

http://searchyc.com

by chengmi • 19 years ago

48 22 19 years ago

searchyc.com

kyro• 19 years ago

nycs.bigheadlabs.com

But this is nice, too.

nivi• 19 years ago

Based on my searches (for venture hacks of course), searchyc has many more results.

chengmi, this is a really nice utility.

danielha• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

nice, i can remember that name

pius2• 19 years ago

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

dcurtis2• 19 years ago

Not everyone uses Firefox...

pius2• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

unfortunately you're correct.

all the more reason to develop firefox-specific software!

some• 19 years ago

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

edw519• 19 years ago

Very good. Thank you!

nickb• 19 years ago

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

mynameishere• 19 years ago

I guess I better rethink my general-purpose search engine idea: loogleg.com

chengmi3• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

Nice one. Is there a way of searching only submissions or only comments?

chengmi3• 19 years ago

No, would you like to? You can search a user's submissions AND comments, though: http://searchyc.com/danw+submissions+or+comments

bayareaguy• 19 years 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.

chengmi3• 19 years ago

Fixed--you can turn off JavaScript now, if you want.

webwright2• 18 years 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• 18 years ago

hi tony. would that be techcruch, valleywag, and reddit? ;)

webwright2• 18 years ago

I will not admit to reading Valleywag ever. Shame on you. ;-)

Something new for the New Year: SearchYC.com

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