PG: Thinking of adding a search facility to news.yc?

16 points·aswanson··13 comments

It doesn't have to be something like pagerank, just a simple text match would work?

I'm getting one of the startups in this batch to write it for us, using their product.

Then there's little reason to hold back, I think. It's a good opportunity for them to test on a moderately-sized environment with real users, right?

They're not holding back. Their product just isn't done yet. The startups in the current batch are only 7 weeks old.

Oh, OK. I thought the demand of the search feature was obvious, so the reason you asked here was to see if there were enough demand to spend your time on the feature.

To answer the original question, yes, even simple word search would be great.

It has been requested a few times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

I agree with you, I think it's something news.yc really needs.

And workarounds have been suggested a few times:

http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ http://ycsearch.com/

My problem was that I knew I wanted to search, and I knew that workarounds had been posted...but I couldn't figure out how to search through YCnews to find the searchers!

this is why having your marginal language of choice target a mainstream platform like the JVM or the CLR is nice - you can always use all the great existing libraries (Lucene, for example) while only slightly dirtying your code.

Yeah, thats will be really a nice thing to have for ycnews. Looking for a piece in the archive is not convenient always.

There's also http://www.ycsearch.com which does a decent job.

is that just "search terms" site:http://news.ycombinator.com ?

Actually it uses Google coop, but the basic idea is the same.

Any kind of search would be great.

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