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by marshallp 5970 days ago
It's costs server time to create a search index, as well as coding time, and even then you'll always do a worse job than google can when ranking. On a public site, adding a google custom search box is far easier and better

Which is the real question - why no custom search box on hn?

Just do site:news.ycombinator.com on google