Hi vonseel, sorry to hear that. I work at Algolia and can directly impact how this search works. Do you have any particular, specific issue or feedback for us to make it better? Thanks!

Really? It's accurate, fast and easy to navigate. Compared to the search options embedded on other sites it's a joy to use.

The HN search implentation is a bit sad, because it lacks the most magic part of Algolia : the real time search.

Using Algolia in a full-page-load HTML request is using a Ferrari do drive to the grocery store. You can, but what a waste

Have you tried https://hn.algolia.com?

Yes I had, but I forgot about it, thanks. Much better than HN own implentation.

Algolia also implemented a linkedin contact search infinitely superior to Linkedin own search.

I remember thinking that both demos were really brilliant growth strategy because it showed clearly, by contrast, how much the status quo was painful

I miss the old search... and was never at ease with Algolia. It's relevant but I don't like the UX.

I use HN search all the time; it's useful.

There is no way to search across multiple comments on the same "story"; I use Google site search for this.

It only counts replies/"comments" for stories, not comments (which would probably be a lot more work).

It differentiates between plural and singular search terms as very different searches.

The only ranking options are by popularity and date (would like to be able to sort results by number of replies too).