I hope you guys find this website useful. I know there are a bunch of other YC searches out there, but we're trying to improve on all of them.

1. nycs.bigheadlabs.com - a good one created by the Disqus guys, but they stopped updating the index quite awhile ago, so all of the search results are stale.

2. trk7.com/yc - Another YC search, but the interface is really confusing.

3. ycsearch.com, Google - Indexes insanely fast and has an excellent relevancy algorithm, but you can't sort by post date or points.

4. Firefox toolbars, etc - I haven't tried them, but I assume it just uses a Google custom search.

5. SearchYC.com - full text searching, 15 minute updates, and a cool user-search feature (try searching for your username (case-sensitive)). We also enable sorting results/submissions/comments by relevancy (sucks), YC points, or post date.

What we really want to do is to start generating some user stats and interesting queries such as "top points per submission", "most linked-to websites", etc. If you're interested in one, post it here!

Anyways, we want you guys (YC users) to help us decide where this goes. The sky's the limit!

Happy New Year's!

Nice one. Is there a way of searching only submissions or only comments?

No, would you like to? You can search a user's submissions AND comments, though: http://searchyc.com/danw+submissions+or+comments

Just tried your site with Opera

 Version  9.50 Beta
 Build    4506 
 Platform MacOS X
 System   10.5.1

The search wouldn't work at all. Then I enabled JavaScript and it seemed to work better. If you need JavaScript, you should advertise that fact. By default I only enable JavaScript for selected sites.

Fixed--you can turn off JavaScript now, if you want.

Cool stuff. More than that, I finally get to know who alaskamiller is. I lived in Alaska for 10 years and see him commenting all over the intertubes in the exact same places where I tend to lurk.

hi tony. would that be techcruch, valleywag, and reddit? ;)

I will not admit to reading Valleywag ever. Shame on you. ;-)

Not everyone uses Firefox...

True indeed, but (1) the link is still germane and (2) it's an OpenSearch plugin, so it's not actually Firefox-specific.

unfortunately you're correct.

all the more reason to develop firefox-specific software!

Sadly, Firefox still sucks on the Mac.

I'll use Safari until Firefox is better.

ff3 beta2 is rock solid on the mac!

Someone also came up with this one: http://ycsearch.com/

I guess I better rethink my general-purpose search engine idea: loogleg.com

nycs.bigheadlabs.com

But this is nice, too.

Based on my searches (for venture hacks of course), searchyc has many more results.

chengmi, this is a really nice utility.

It actually stopped indexing news.yc in the summer time (some minor thing tripped it up, but it hasn't been tended to).

We should probably put a message up telling people to stop using it, or link to this new one. Nice work.

nice, i can remember that name

Very good. Thank you!