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Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

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Can be it used to find open source client side code/libraries that are used out of the open source licence?

Absolutely! Any snippet of source code can easily be searched... for example, "jquery.min.js": https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=jquery.min...

Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

#12
post #10

Good idea. Are there some limitations by default? It looks like I can only see the fist 8 results. It's not clear at all whether it is a bug or deliberate limitation.

Guests have access to the top 10 results, but depending on how common the code you search for is, you may get less than 10. We usually see millions of results for more common terms. What was your search out of curiosity? Thanks for the comments, keep 'em coming!

Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks I appreciate it! Did you make a search?

Sorry, not yet, but I will. I got you bookmarked because I noticed the brouhaha earlier with that other search site. It sounds interesting, though. It's been almost an hour and you only have my 1 upvote, so to be honest your submission really doesn't look like it's going anywhere. I'd resubmit tomorrow at around 7:30 to 8:30am EST, and I'd do it as a "Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers,…

Thanks! Great advice!

Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

#14
From your pricing page => https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing

25 cents a search seems a bit high for the most basic searches.

Realize this could be so that you don't have to sell ad-space and to make money right away (and fast).

Test query [ d3.behavior.zoom] results:

nerdydata => 11 code results

stack overflow => 126 results

github => 4,824 code results

bing => 283,000 results

google => 593,000 results

edit: I am really excited about this as finding websites with live code examples in JS would be extremely useful. Better to see live code than someone's (perhaps old?) blog post about how they did it.

Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

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post #2

Hey HackerNews! We're proud to announce the launch of our one-of-a-kind source code search engine. Our team is 2 recent graduates who are trying to undertake the herculean challenge of building a search engine. Traditional search engines only index the text of webpages. We go deeper, and get all the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more. All feedback is welcome, we're new and trying to improve.

cwings? cwings.org from 2007?

Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

#16
post #14

From your pricing page => https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing 25 cents a search seems a bit high for the most basic searches. Realize this could be so that you don't have to sell ad-space and to make money right away (and fast). Test query [ d3.behavior.zoom] results: nerdydata => 11 code results stack overflow => 126 results github => 4,824 code results bing => 283,000 results google => 593,000 results edit: I am r…

The site seems to only index homepages right now.

Re: Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

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post #2

Hey HackerNews! We're proud to announce the launch of our one-of-a-kind source code search engine. Our team is 2 recent graduates who are trying to undertake the herculean challenge of building a search engine. Traditional search engines only index the text of webpages. We go deeper, and get all the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more. All feedback is welcome, we're new and trying to improve.

Give the fuss you kicked up about meanpath earlier I'm not sure you can really claim "one-of-a-kind" here...

That said it looks good and the demo seems to work now, good job!

Just out of curiosity what's the UA of your crawler? Curious to see if it's hit any of my sites.

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