We have just updated HN Search (http://hn.algolia.com) with major improvements:<p>- Mobile version: it now works just like your desktop version. You can select what you want to search (all, story, comment, poll) and refine/sort your queries by date (last 24h, past week, past month, forever).<p>- Phrase queries: they are now supported in the parser using "" syntax. This syntax also disables prefix search and typo tolerance for the terms of the phrase query.<p>- Not: we have added support of negative terms in your query (using -term syntax).<p>As usual, your feedback is more than welcome. We also appreciate pull requests & feature requests on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search
I spent probably 20 a few days ago trying to find the HN discussion for the ElasticSearch 1.0 release (as I'd remembered there being some useful comments there about using ES as a document store, but not their exact contents), and ended up with nothing. Ultimately, I ended up spending another 45 minutes on the general internet trying to piece together the bits of the comment I remembered.<p>With the new update, I tried the same query as I had, and it was immediately the very first result.<p>BRILLIANT.
Please switch the default option from "story" to "all".<p>The legacy style screen has a minor rendering error in Firefox 31:<p><a href="http://imgur.com/tkqCRGh" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/tkqCRGh</a><p>My comment from a previous story is still relevant:<p>The search results for stories show both the long (and useless) news.ycombinator URL and a link to the comments. Both links lead to the same location. The news.ycombinator URL displayed is redundant and adds visual noise. I've highlighted both links in the image linked to below.<p>I'd like it if the results showed "link", "parent", and "on $News_Story", like the old site did.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/asHzSb1" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/asHzSb1</a>
Sorry for hijacking this, but can anyone that know someone at DuckDuckGo ask them to change !hn from <a href="http://hnsearch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hnsearch.com/</a> to <a href="http://hn.algolia.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hn.algolia.com/</a> ?<p>I've already contacted them with the form on their site a week or so ago, but it's still using the old search, which is not working anymore now.<p>Again, sorry for the hijack, but posting requests over here seems to be the fastest way to have something done.
It looks great on my iphone.<p>The only other thing I would request is perhaps the screenshots that appear on the desktop version?<p>Could you also possibly try to get somone to make the main HN site responsive on mobile? I'm surprised why this has not been done yet. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.
Imo the default search shouldn't return hidden comments and stories. While it might sometimes be useful to do so, I'm finding it mostly results in spam showing up. As much as I do appreciate the opportunity to buy <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cheap+nike+shoes" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cheap+nike+shoes</a> ...
Love the work you've done with this. The feature I'm always wishing you had was the ability to filter by number of comments in post as it's a pretty fair marker of relevance on alot of queries.