How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search?

Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by axod on Monday September 17, 2007 @02:31PM (#55829)

Google never spiders everything. I'd be really surprised if google had caught every single story that had been posted here.

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by jey on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:10PM (#55846)

I know I have had trouble finding things I've seen on news.yc when using Google.

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by nailer on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:35PM (#55953)

An example: I'm running a startup from Melbourne Australia and read an interesting comment from someone in the same boat, including details of a meetup type event, a week ago.

I didn't bookmark it because I didn't expect it would be hard to find. But now I can't find it at all.

The poster mentioned Melbourne was the 'artichoke end of the world'. Googling for 'artichoke' on news.yccombinator.com has no results. How frequently does Google spider most sites anyway?

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by bootload on Monday September 17, 2007 @11:21PM (#56088)

"... The poster mentioned Melbourne was the 'artichoke end of the world'. Googling for 'artichoke' on news.yccombinator.com has no results. How frequently does Google spider most sites anyway? ..."

Yeah the search here sucks. My attempt at finding stuff is to

A) save it on my blog so I have the original copy I can then search via google

B) in FOX: site: http://news.ycombinator.com search+term

Look one way to get around it is for someone to spider the site and link back (damn I lost the link .... someone has a search site where???), another is to get a google box for what USD$5K and integrate google search. As the site grows, search is becoming important for historical articles, phrases or people who you want to ascribe a comment. Guess this is what's meant by users loving new features. I'm just glad there is somewhere for stuff like this to be discussed. So while search sucks, it's not integral, for me at least.

And by the way the word "Artichoke" is a vegetable reference from Wallace & Grommit, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit:_The_Curse_o...

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by dane on Monday September 17, 2007 @08:24PM (#55968)

Meetup: http://twitter.com/mtub

bootload's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52955

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by rms on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:07PM (#55947)

I had problems finding stories from before the switch to putting all comments and news stories on item?id=x, because a search would go to a broken link. But the object numbers stayed the same, so if you find a story with a broken link, you can just switch comment?id=x to item?id=x.

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by bootload on Monday September 17, 2007 @11:30PM (#56090)

"... I had problems finding stories from before the switch to putting all comments and news stories on item?id=x, because a search would go to a broken link. ..."

Deleted node probably. Means it's been deleted or removed by user and/or was probably edited because it was "spammish" or poor quality in nature.

"... so if you find a story with a broken link, you can just switch comment?id=x to item?id=x. ..."

This one I noted after some changes in the code probably about 2 months after I started using it. I save all my posts and the links started breaking (link checking). The term was changed from 'comment' to 'item' (guessing) because it was shorter.

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by rms on Monday September 17, 2007 @11:40PM (#56092)

Before the update, items were broken down into 'comment' and 'link' (not sure if link was the object, it might have been news) but their ID numbers didn't overlap so I assume PG combined them because their was no reason not to, except for breaking old links.

The links I was trying to find weren't actually deleted, I just wasn't finding them because I only recently figured out I need to change the link to 'item?id='

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by bootload on Monday September 17, 2007 @11:48PM (#56096)

"... tems were broken down into 'comment' and 'link' (not sure if link was the object, it might have been news) but their ID numbers didn't overlap so I assume PG combined them because their was no reason not to, except for breaking old links. ..."

Thanks for that explanation. Hadn't taken the time to work this out.

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Re:How is it that 'Hacker News' still doesn't have search? by akkartik on Monday September 17, 2007 @10:55PM (#56072)

Seconded.

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