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Comment by andres | Hacker News Reader

Thanks for taking the time to review HNSearch.

Your example search is sorted by date so it makes sense that the words "billion" and "almost" don't necessarily appear in the title. Here are the search results sorted by relevance:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bil...

If you'd like to filter on stories with those words in the title, you can use the "title:" operator:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...

Did you try sending us an email with your feature requests? Usually we respond very quickly to emails about feature requests.

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I'm really pressed for time, so this will be less word-crafted than I usually try.

    If you'd like to filter on stories with those words
    in the title, you can use the "title:" operator:

This seems completely unobvious.

    Did you try sending us an email with your feature
    requests?

No, because I tried using several combinations of the obvious things to try, got frustrated, and honestly couldn't bring myself to care. I know that's going to be frustrating to you, because no doubt you do care and want me to care as well, but I'm finding that whereas with SearchYC I could find pretty much anything I wanted really quickly, with HNSearch I simply can't. It returns stuff that seems irrelevant, or not what I wanted, and doesn't find the stuff I think it should.

And I'm too old, too tired, and too grumpy to try to work out why. In particular:

    ... you can use the "title:" operator:

... just seems like too much hard work.

So good luck, hope it works, but I'm probably not going to provide much high-quality feedback.

When you have the time to provide feedback please send me an email (andres@thriftdb.com).

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