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Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
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Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#22Earlier 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)?
maybe add metadata to the index, but not the full page content, else you're just gonna build another google
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#23Please, add also the possibility to search in links posted/commented in hacker news. I bet it would be competitive against google for the hn crowd.
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#24Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
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."
I think Microsoft is working on that right now :p
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Usually I'm only looking back the past week or three.
Otherwise I snapshot the page to evernote when I think it might be interesting later. Hopefully they don't completely end the free tier.
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#26Earlier 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."
I think Microsoft is working on that right now :p
That’s exactly what it sounded like to me.
Of course, local/offline only would be great.
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
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Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#28Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
>algolia.hn
Is that a valid link? I get an error when opening it.
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#29Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
>algolia.hn Is that a valid link? I get an error when opening it.
It's the other way around: https://hn.algolia.com/
Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
#30Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
>algolia.hn Is that a valid link? I get an error when opening it.
No that's not valid (it's attached to the search box at the bottom of the page) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=