I've found SearchYC to be very helpful. I use it quite a bit to look up old information I only vaguely remember or to find people. Glad to see it's only going to get better - congrats Mike and Jerry.
I always love hearing about behind the scenes updates, thanks for posting.<p>As a more dev-heavy optimization, it might be possible to return cached results (user-search:PG), and then trigger a backend server to refresh the cache, possibly even using ajax to inject the new results.<p>Thanks for the site, it's my top choice for searching HN.<p>As an aside, I'd love to see a standard for integrating site-specific search into a larger search engine. Imagine if you could go to Google, and type in<p>"Site:News.ycombinator.com user:e1ven" and it would send those as post-requests to the search engine designated by robots.txt on the host?<p>That would make search dramatically "deeper", by letting google act as a front-end to each site's results.<p>-CPD
Here is a feature request that is relevant only because you are already archiving hackernews:<p>Send a notification to my email __________ whenever:<p>(checkbox) Someone replies to a comment from user _________<p>(checkbox) User _________ makes a submission/comment<p>(submit button)
I like SearchYC a lot, but when it's slow I tend to use Google site search:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+search+term" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+sea...</a>
searchyc seems to be down for me, is this related to the improvements or is it just that I can't reach it and everybody else can ?<p>edit.<p>thanks to the people that tested it, ok so that seems to be my problem then, here is a traceroute of the last steps before it stops responding:<p>11 * pos-1-4-0-0-cr01.mclean.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.29) 251.887 ms 252.502 ms<p>12 pos-1-11-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.241) 267.698 ms 268.398 ms 234.520 ms<p>13 pos-1-13-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.253) 227.691 ms * 153.851 ms<p>14 pos-0-13-0-0-cr01.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.145) 202.909 ms 204.094 ms 204.818 ms<p>15 * pos-0-14-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.189) 215.876 ms 216.499 ms<p>16 pos-0-15-0-0-ar01.oakland.ca.sfba.comcast.net (68.86.90.138) 219.741 ms 220.384 ms *<p>17 po-30-ur02.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net (68.87.226.222) 222.161 ms 223.248 ms 222.742 ms<p>18 te-8-4-ur04.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net
(68.87.226.85) 224.225 ms 224.801 ms 225.416 ms