HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today

Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by geerlingguy on Saturday March 15, 2014 @02:22PM (#7405575)

Any reason why the old domain couldn't continue to be a wrapper around the new engine/interface? hnsearch.com sounds more trustworthy to me (and has been around a lot longer) than algolia. (This is coming from a long-time lurker, never been into the YC scene much, so I've never heard of algolia).

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by jaredsohn on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:31PM (#7405943)

If the domain name doesn't get forwarded over, you can also find the search engine at the bottom of the Hacker News main page.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by terminalcommand on Saturday March 15, 2014 @04:33PM (#7406280)

I am going to use the search bar then, thank you!

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by maxerickson on Saturday March 15, 2014 @04:33PM (#7406284)

Comments pages too.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by rpedela on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:03PM (#7405787)

I have the exact same question. I can remember hnsearch better than algolia and it is easier to spell in my opinion.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by nzadrozny on Saturday March 15, 2014 @04:08PM (#7406152)

Probably an SEO/branding move for Algolia.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by joelrunyon on Saturday March 15, 2014 @06:30PM (#7406797)

SEO & Branding are typically opposite goals.

Seems like it might be something where they want to branch out from just HN.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by jaredsohn on Saturday March 15, 2014 @06:53PM (#7406884)

I highly doubt they are "branching out" from just HN. Obviously Algolia existed prior to replacing hnsearch (they were already in YC), but taking it over gives them more visibility within the startup community and also frees up responsibility for Octopart.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by ndessaigne on Saturday March 15, 2014 @07:05PM (#7406922)

Yes, we already existed before operating the new HN search. We did it as a way to participate to the community and of course it's good for our visibility. The hnsearch.com domain is the property of Octopart, not ours.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by facepalm on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:23PM (#7405900)

Also, now I presumably have to change the code of my app which uses the API.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by jaredsohn on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:27PM (#7405913)

Yeah, the API is different (but I feel it is overall better and they've been responsive to inquiries on github https://github.com/algolia/hn-search).

Technically, you likely would have had to change your code a month ago or so. From what I can tell, hnsearch hasn't had its content updated in the past month.

Edit: Fixed URL. Apparently if you include the period inside the parentheses right after a link (which is incorrect if it isn't its own sentence), Hacker News includes it as a part of the URL.

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by justhw on Saturday March 15, 2014 @04:16PM (#7406193)

You've got an extra dot. Here https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

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Re:HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later... by facepalm on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:38PM (#7405996)

My app is still a prototype. It's online, but not officially launched. So I didn't notice the missing results yet.

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