Yesterday I was reading a post regarding who's hiring on HN and it took me some time to find it again. I was really looking for a search bar, but couldn't find one. Why don't HN have a search bar?
I guess the OP would actually want to know why such a functionality is not built-in. At least I'd like to know.
I understand that there is an infinity of ingredients that make up a good search, but surely a trivial implementation would not take too much effort from PG, or at least he could bless an external one and put a form referring to it?
A Google ajax search perhaps?
Thanks for the links. Now next time if I need to search HN, I will have to find your comment first (to get links) :)
It would be great to have this link on HN homepage. Also, it will help in reducing the duplicate posts. People can do a quick search and check if their topic is already posted by someone else.
I guess (but I could easily be in the wrong here) that it just hasn't been high on pg's priority list. As akent said there are alternatives out there, but I guess it would be nice to have duplicate submission detection built-in.
I agree. I'd like to see search functionality added too. It just doesn't make a lot of sense, in my eyes, to not have it on a site like this. It would be infinitely useful on so many different levels.
There is also http://searchyc.com/ but they are currently down.