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Could we use this to search HN?

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Open articleView on HN

Probably, but until then, there's http://searchyc.com/

Or use !hn query in duckduckgo.com (uses searchyc.com)

That's pretty cool. Except that I read it as "Not hackernews" :)

I wish there was a link to searchyc on HN, I don't feel like typing it in every time I need to search.

Bookmark?

Just subscribe to HN in Google Reader and use its search function.

Are comments included in HN's feed?

No. It's the same as on the HN frontpage: article title, link to the article, and link to the comments. This is what a feed item looks like in Google Reader (GR): http://i.imgur.com/Imyw9.png

GR's search functionality is pretty useful. I sometimes mark articles I upvote here on HN in GR, too, so I can search through them in the future, if I need to. I don't know for how long GR saves fetched articles of a specific feed, but if you mark them, they'll stay there forever. At least I hope so.

I hadn't thought of that one!

Anything insufficient with site:news.ycombinator.com ?

That can fail to locate a newer post, leading to a repost.

I also suspect it doesn't index everything, at least sometimes I can't find an older post and its either them or my brain, so I blame google.

What I really want is a search engine for articles I've seen on HN. All current solutions ("site:", Google CSE, searchyc.com) are just indexing the titles of the stories and the comments, but not the actual text of the article.

I've always wondered why this isn't used... perhaps because if you can't figure out site:whatever on google you're not a hacker?

Still, it's easy to implement and certainly better than nothing.

You can use directly Google http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2F...

May PG add this link to the top/bottom bar http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014927534610857777870:r3kw...

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