I just saw that New Mogul has a search box that pipes through to searchyc.com without ruining the site design. I'm sure you've considered adding a search box in the past, but might now be a good time to reconsider?
Ask PG: Why no search box?
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#3they have a different site design, to add a searchbox on the top, he'd have to redesign the header
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#4Good coders code, great - reuse. =)
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#5HN readers are expected to know how to use Google to search a single site.
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#6they have a different site design, to add a searchbox on the top, he'd have to redesign the header
Not a good reason. There is an important functionality already implemented well by others and all the work to do in HN is to add a small form. Why not?
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#7HN readers are expected to know how to use Google to search a single site.
SearchYC is much better.
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#8And why no inbox?
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#9There is a lot of data on this site, and a few months ago, PG had to do upgrade the server to handle the traffic. If he added search, is it possible that all those queries would kill site performance?
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#10Sounds like a job for Greasemonkey. Wouldn't be too hard to add a box that submits to searchyc.com/