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Allow all or ban all. let's make fairness a rule on the internet, it gives a chance to all startup to emerge by giants side. If Yahoo was not fair to Google no one knows what would have happened.
That statement is roughly equivalent to "imprison no one or imprison everyone".
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http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+y... There's no other search.
Does that actually work for people? I've tried using Google to search News.YC for an older topic on a couple of occasions, and the results have been very hit-or-miss. Is it just me?
If you remember some key words from the title, you can do a quick find in http://www.kirubakaran.com/phr0zen (snapshots of front page). It is not really search search but I find it useful all the time.
why not block all search engines?
Because News.YC doesn't have it's own search engine. So I use google to search the site.
It's easy to do with open-source software such as Solr (lucene.apache.org/solr) or Hounder (hounder.org, shameless plug because it is our product), which powers the wordpress.com site.
Edit: it looks like someone already did this: searchyc.com.
I do not currently use Yahoo or MSN search, but would rather not have the option of using them cut off.
why not block all search engines?
I agree to the site being invisible to yahoo, msn, ask, etc. At the same time, please let the newer/upcoming search engines crawl the site, else, google would become IE circa 2000-2004 and there would be very little innovation in search. my 2 cents.
This patchwork deny/allow is nearly as bad as banning everyone but Google. Every small site will make the decision of who's young enough to deserve a chance differently -- making only Google the safe choice for searching. A principle of equal access by any well-behaved search engine is the only policy which supports startups and diversity. The market already has a winner-take-all quality; why make it even worse for c…
Like you, I support startups and want diversity and innovation, which is why I would like search startups to crawl this website.
Hope that clears it up.
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Isn't that fair?
That is also hopelessly naïve.