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Comment by mynameishere | Hacker News Reader

I really need to see the URLs for hits.

So that's what was missing! I knew something was disrupting my normal flow of analyzing search results... and now that you mention it I realize I usually look at the URL's, sometimes even before the article title.

If you click "more links" below the first few main links you'll see search results with URLS

Great work! One more thing I think is necessary, you should clearly mention in the about page that you are feeding from Yahoo search result as well. It is fair to the user and to Yahoo.

Yahoo BOSS's terms do not require attribution though: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/ . I don't think most users would care as much either; we hackers care a lot coz we're baffled with "how in the world did this one guy do this?!". (Even with BOSS being used for some results, this is still very impressive.)

Although it might help the service get more credibility by mentioning that Yahoo results are also used.

I guess they're showing now, or I was doing something wrong before (or, everyone was, given the number of upmods...)

No, you're right. They show for some results and not others. I used to show them for all results, and maybe I should just go back to doing that.

maybe I should just go back to doing that.

Definitely, because you have many more types of links than a normal search engine--some of them are requests for clarification. A URL tells the user "This is a 'hit' that will take you to a different website".

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