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Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by pedalpete »

Nice work. I wonder if there may be a better application for the Vectara capabilities than search?

Algolia has already done the search thing, can the Vectara search be 10x better?

What I do find missing from HN is the ability for me to see things that may be of interest to me, but that I may have missed. I like how I get everything in the main feed which is pure popularity, but I don't have the time to go through all posts, and definitely likely miss things I would probably have been interested in.

Though this can be done with collaborative filtering, or other non-AI methods, might this be a decent use case for your AI?

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

owenpalmer wrote: post #6

Cool, I like it! I found a bug. Under the "When will GPT-5 be released?" search results, there are double duplicate results. On one of the duplicates, the "username (date)" says "undefined (undefined)"

I tried this query as well, I was a bit frightened when I saw my own comment in the results.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by smusamashah »

It doesn't always work correctly. For example "Text to diagram tool" is returning very few results and some of the results are not even correct. While this topic has been discussed a lot here. I was mainly looking for the list of tools I keep sharing whenever this topic comes up, or when I share a related tool in a thread.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by ofermend »

metadat wrote: post #5
mikepurvis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."

Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.

Currently it's indexing the content of stories and comments. Are you suggesting also to index the content of the main story link (which is outside HN)?

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by squigz »

yaj54 wrote: post #9
mikepurvis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."

Ditto. I somewhat recently learned that Safari only keeps the history log for one year unless you explicitly set "Remove history items" to "manually." Which I've done so that I at least have a list that I could crawl in the future to build a full text index on.

I'm fairly confident every single major browser (and probably most minor) have a history limit of some sort. Sometimes it's age, sometimes it's # of entries.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by fluential »

metadat wrote: post #5
mikepurvis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."

Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.

This already exist: "searching over the titles, text and URLs of sites you've visited before" -- https://www.browserparrot.com/

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by squigz »

ofermend wrote: post #14
metadat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.

Currently it's indexing the content of stories and comments. Are you suggesting also to index the content of the main story link (which is outside HN)?

That is what they're suggesting, yes.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by kid64 »

fluential wrote: post #17
metadat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.

This already exist: "searching over the titles, text and URLs of sites you've visited before" -- https://www.browserparrot.com/

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