Search Y Combinator

[bgray]

http://searchyc.com/

[bravura]

Question: Why isn't this linked from hacker news, in the header or footer?

Why do we keep waiting for questions on "how do I search hacker news", to pounce and share this link?

[frisco → bravura]

Because WebMynd is a portfolio company, and ostensibly searches Hacker News.

[biafra → frisco]

How do I use HNSearch without Firefox?

When I click on the link I only see a page where I can install a Firefox extension.

[fraXis → bravura]

Better yet, why doesn't PG add his own search function to HN?

[chaosprophet → bravura]

If you have greasemonkey you could use this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

[sahaj]

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ycombinator.com+%s

replace %s with search terms.

[JacobAldridge → sahaj]

I know I prefer SearchYC because it also provides links to parent in the search returns. I often use it to find an article of comment I replied to, so that extra function saves me a click.

[paraschopra → JacobAldridge]

Moreover, it can also sort by points - a feature I really like (though indexing at SearchYC seems to be slow)

[tewks → sahaj]

searchyc's results are more relevant for me enough of the time that I now choose to use it over google out of habit.

[johnohara]

Works. Thank you. Search plug-in in FF works fine too.