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Google will even pay you to use their solution.

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.

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).

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

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

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

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

I must disagree in this case.