Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN?

Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by Aegean on Saturday May 08, 2010 @12:06AM (#1329565)

Any time I see something valuable on HN I quickly bookmark it so that I can read it later on without the hassle to search it. Search is a hassle on YC. I think we need a solution especially having been used to quick and effective google search for almost anything.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by jacquesm on Saturday May 08, 2010 @12:07AM (#1329567)

That's what searchyc.com is all about.

Google is a good solution, searchyc.com is even better.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by bootload on Saturday May 08, 2010 @01:46AM (#1329699)

"... searchyc.com is even better. ..."

I'll second that. searchyc is my HN search of choice. Works every time. Why are users complaining about finding things?

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by trop on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:26AM (#1329735)

In a sense, HN is itself a bookmark site once logged in. That is, by looking at the "saved stories" link from my profile, I see what I've upvoted. Hence an incentive to upvote not just good items, but items I want to look at multiple times. (No such "saved comments" index exists, though?)

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by jacquesm on Saturday May 08, 2010 @07:25AM (#1329980)

Yes, unless of course your 'saved stories' link has more than 210 entries on it.

edit: Hey, wow! This seems to have been quietly fixed, I really missed this and I'm pretty happy it's repaired.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by rmundo on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:47AM (#1329759)

I compulsively bookmark anything interesting I read on the net these days. Nothing is as annoying as wanting to refer to something I've read before and only able to find it again after a huge googling effort.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by ledger123 on Saturday May 08, 2010 @08:22AM (#1330038)

The easiest way to bookmark HN articles is to leave a comment.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? by jacquesm on Saturday May 08, 2010 @10:45AM (#1330229)

That's not correct, the easiest way to bookmark is to upvote.

The articles then end under your 'saved' list (see your profile links) and you can find them again later.

These lists were limited in length until recently but it seems that that has now been fixed and you can go all the way back to when you joined HN.

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