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no, make it a form field with a button next to it, that submits to http://searchyc.com/.

second that, and maybe repeat in top bar if graphic design looks ok.

I periodically google search with site:news.ycomb..

For what it's worth, Xichekolas's Greasemonkey script adds such a field and button, as well as doing several other useful things.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

But that's a link to a FF extension, not a search page.

I installed it.

And then turned it off after a minute of playing with it.

If I want to find HN discussion of a particular URL then it doesn't really help - and I don't want HN links turning up every time I google for something.

This would make it easier to find for me, since I tend to ignore logos at the bottom of webpages.

EDIT: On second thought, maybe at the top would be better: