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I use hnsearch quite a bit as a general search/opinion tool. I use it less as a gateway to HN and more as filtering tool (wherein I expect readable, non-italic versions of the comments on the result page). For instance if I was curious if Don DeLillo ever popped up in HN comments. Compare the results: https://hn.algolia.io/?q=Don%20Delillo https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Don+Delillo Algolia's manages to…
Those aren't false positives, those are additional helpful results in case you accidentally typed "Don Delillo" instead of "Delicious don't" or "dealloc done". I know I do that all the time!
Unhelpful sarcasm aside, it's nice that the results that contain the actual search are at least above the non-results. But I really don't like trend of search engines to include results that don't include any of the search terms above results that contain some of them. If you search for just "Delillo", you'll come up with a lot of results that are probably relevant to the user's intention.
Offering "If you didn't find what you were looking, maybe you meant:" alternatives could be helpful, but if not hidden (preferable), at the least these results should be clearly delineated from the actual matches. Google's approach of showing certain terms with a strike-through is the minimum I'd accept happily.
edit: Yuck, when I wrote this I hadn't even realized that it keeps loading non-relevant results in an endless scroll.
It does not clearly allow searching for stories, comments, or users.
It does not clearly allow sorting by relevance, date or score.
The screenshots are useless and take up valuable screen space, disrupting the flow of text and making it hard to scan. It is especially bad on a mobile phone.
The excerpts of text are too long, requiring you to scroll pages and pages when all you need are titles.
There is too much wasted blank space on the pages.
The search results look more like a daily digest you'd read in email, than search results you'd use to quickly find what you're looking for.
At least hnsearch.com still works, for now.
I always found HNSearch[1] to be excellent, but it's good to see a little competition. [1]: https://www.hnsearch.com/
Thanks! It's great to hear you found HNSearch useful. We were very happy to power search for HN but we haven't been able to dedicate much time to making it better. It's exciting to see Algolia iterating on HN's search functionality.
Test: Search for a "story" about "Firefox" "today"
Result:
As someone who uses hnsearch literally every day, this makes me a little concerned. I'm active in the Rust community, and my usecase involves searching for the keyword "Rust" and sorting by date in order to figure out where the current discussions are happening. Without the capability to quickly zero-in on recent comments (especially given the lack of any automatic notification of comment replies), HN will be much di…
What about: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=Rust&sort... ?
nice ui and fast, but the search results could improve Test: Search for a "story" about "Firefox" "today" Result: http://i.imgur.com/xQwc7WP.png
-I prefer the old date search compare to the new options that mimic how Google does it. I prefer the ability to sort by relevance vs date (in descending from most recent) the way HN search does it. Simply restricting to most recent by a certain timeframe doesn't let me expand beyond the period specified and currently it doesn't sort the date in order (at least not when choosing forever)
-Negative keyword parameter no longer available
-Title search parameter is also gone
-Not sure how the relevancy algorithm is calculated but for tests I've ran, it is showing some really old posts (2 years ago) at the top which makes no sense
