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Comment by xirium | Hacker News Reader

Searching searchyc.com for common single-words has improved greatly. Searching for "startup" previously took more than 30 seconds. However, you're still slower than http://y.soho.lt/ for multi-word searches.

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We're running on very limited resources. But the good thing is we can now throw hardware at the problem (if we had the money to do so) and performance would improve. I couldn't say that with the old system.

Isn't http://y.soho.lt/ a wrapper for Google search? I'm searching for "demo day techcrunch" and soho returns no results. http://www.searchyc.com/demo+day+techcrunch returns 11 results.

http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper. It is 8KB of web services with data held locally which is a proof-of-concept for a larger search system. http://y.soho.lt/ also runs on limited resources, namely virtual hosting. Furthermore, we were indexing slowly over the past 30 days and therefore a full index wasn't collected until this morning. A complete and current index will be public from Sunday onwards.

How about a bake-off this weekend?

To demonstrate that http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper, the dataset has been made available. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 for details.

Is this weekend good for a site search bake-off or do you need more time?

What are you running on for Hardware? Can the service index across multiple machines?

We're running on a Linode virtual server. Yes, we can index across multiple machines, but we aren't currently.

They may be slower, but they return more results. Also, the interface is better -- I don't want to have to go to News.YC to see the context of the result.

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