Is it possible to have the algolia search that doesn't come with ga?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118496
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126301
HN’s minimalism is the site itself. Part of that is not writing its own search engine…to a first approximation, its a fair bet it never would have made the top of the todo list.
[1]: Algolia was established and had raised investment prior to YC.
As I stated, I'm not bemoaning the use of algolia here (there's at least an icon to inform the user of its use). Only that Google Analytics is being used in addition to it.
I would think in theory algolia being a YC company would make it easier to request a workaround without GA if algolia is the one using it.
>Before that, Google was the practical way to search HN.
In that case, the user would be explicitly made aware they were using google services I would think. That is not the case here.
Google says that they maintain separation between their ad business and the acquisition now known as google analytics