Can I ask where did You get information on all HN submissions? Did You just scrape the web site for all IDs from 0 to 1683584 or so?
Have a look at the source code. He just uses Google search.
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#22How about you collaborate with http://searchyc.com and use their index with this interface?
I'd love that. They'd need to significantly speed Search YC up for that to work though. A search that doesn't require hitting enter but takes 5 seconds to give results isn't very satisfying. I really love Search YC, but it's so slow. I wonder if we could do some kind of kickstarter campaign to get them better infrastructure (assuming better infrastructure would fix it without significant code optimizations). Or maybe…
It is slow sometimes, but their query logs would be useful for query suggestions. Query suggestions should be based on what searches are popular. Not sure if you want to go through the effort of making suggestions yourself though.
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#23My first impression before clicking the link was that this was using searchyc.com 's index.
I guess its based on a search-engine result after all.
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#24My hat is off to you. It works in Opera and now I can get a glimpse of what Google Instant -- and other Instants that don't play nice with Opera -- is like. Thanks.
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#25you should adjust it so searching for "lisp" does not end up with a chunk of code w/ multiple li tags in it as being more relevant than articles that actually have the word "lisp" in them. I noticed this with a few other phrases too such as "vegan" - there are multiple "vega" chip comments that take precedence over the fully matched word.
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#26No offense, but I'm slightly tired of Instant Search Blog'o'News!, etc. headlines.
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#27A new meme? Surprised that it took Google to do it before it got applied to several other sites.
Seems that Google is still pretty darn innovative and forward-thinking.
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#28Cute idea, but it doesn't have predictions and the results are quite bad. Typing in "NoSQL" doesn't come up with the recent Heroku blog post about NoSQL.
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#29Hey guys, author here, thanks all for the kind words. It's nice to see it reaching the front page of HN when someone with decent karma submits it.
Just to let you all know I've only spent about 6 hours on this and plan to polish it up somewhat as it's still quite rough. I've also got a bunch of other developers requesting inclusion into the site swell, which I'll also add.
Things on the todo list are visual polish, adding other services, new menu, adding the suggest feature, perhaps changing from just using the google search to better apis etc.
Thanks for the feedback.
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#30While the new crop of "Instance [website] Search" projects are cool, I feel like most are missing the key feature of Google Instant: predictions. Without predictions, the user never knows what search returned the current results. Instead of instant search, these examples feel like instant filtering.