Search hacker news

11 pointsby catalinistvor 19 Jahren18 comments

I love it how simple hacker news is, but it wouldn't hurt to have a search feature. I mean one could use a "dirty hack" and search with google and site:news.ycombinator.com but I think it would be more relevant to have a search on the actual db, not on what google indexed.

19 comments

henrywvor 19 Jahren

there's this: http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/

ecuzzillovor 19 Jahren

How about a link to that, then, on the top bar, since everybody wants search?

adrianwajvor 19 Jahren

Some companies that provide search programs off-the-shelf.

http://www.approximatch.com/

http://www.data-essence.com/ (stealth)

At the end of the day Reddit has search...eventually this site too..

iamelgringovor 19 Jahren

Google's already done the leg work with Google custom search for your site:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Although I don't know if you have to sell your soul to use it or not.

imstevevor 19 Jahren

I've used it on some sites and it usually... sucks.

[deleted]vor 19 Jahren

waleedkavor 19 Jahren

This has been requested many times, and users are begging for it. PG, is there a reason why it's not implemented? If the implementation is hard, then maybe you can use Google or bigheadlabs's solution!

rmsvor 19 Jahren

Google will even pay you to use their solution.

imstevevor 19 Jahren

HAH. I had it on a site that got hundreds of thousands of searches and it made maybe a dollar, total ever. What a joke.

staunchvor 19 Jahren

As I recall he plans to do it, but wants to spend the time to make it good (and we can assume he doesn't have many big chunks of free time).

catalinistvor 19 Jahren

The implementation can't be that hard ... come on ... it's about doing some query on the database.

falsestprophetvor 19 Jahren

That is really not the case. Search is a hard problem.

DanielBMarkhamvor 19 Jahren

After all, what is search, really, except to look for things that are already inside of us?

pcvor 19 Jahren

In general, yes. In news.yc's case, no.

imstevevor 19 Jahren

I must disagree in this case.

kajecounterhackvor 19 Jahren

actually I found a PHP script for this today at http://scripts.suramya.com/ while looking for a gimpshop debian installer. I'm not sure if it works but it looks good. its PHP...

juanpablovor 19 Jahren

How about to type:

your_search_here site:news.ycombinator.com

in Google?

catalinistvor 19 Jahren

that's what I was reffering to when I wrote "search with google and site:news.ycombinator.com"

mdemarevor 19 Jahren

Exactly. I use it even for sites that have search - it's much more accurate.

And if you search a site often, you can create a macroexpansion for the address bar - e.g. in my browser (safari + sogudi) "w lisp" expands to http://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.org+lisp

Don't ask others to solve your problems, solve it yourself.