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Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

18 points by cwings 13y ago

cwings 13y ago
Hey HackerNews! We're proud to announce the launch of our one-of-a-kind source code search engine. Our team is 2 recent graduates who are trying to undertake the herculean challenge of building a search engine. Traditional search engines only index the text of webpages. We go deeper, and get all the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more. All feedback is welcome, we're new and trying to improve.
- wikiburner 13y ago
  Dude, I upvoted you, but you really want to prefix your post with "Show HN: " - you'll get a lot more attention that way.
  - cwings 13y ago
    Thanks I appreciate it! Did you make a search?
    - wikiburner 13y ago
      Sorry, not yet, but I will. I got you bookmarked because I noticed the brouhaha earlier with that other search site. It sounds interesting, though. It's been almost an hour and you only have my 1 upvote, so to be honest your submission really doesn't look like it's going anywhere. I'd resubmit tomorrow at around 7:30 to 8:30am EST, and I'd do it as a "Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers", but don't put put your url in the "url" field - put it in the "text" box, along with your "Hey HackerNews!..." copy. Posts submitted that way will be much more likely to get upvotes, and you'll linger in the "Ask" section (see the link at the top nav. bar) for about a week or so. Update: I was recommending that you kill this submission, but scratch that. You're on the home page now, so maybe it'll take off. If not, just resubmit next week the way I mention above.
      - dbielik 13y ago
        Thanks! Great advice!
    - wikiburner 13y ago
      Whoops, ignore my comment to delete this submission. You're at 5 points and on the home page. If you don't get any more pickup than this, consider resubmitting next week the way I recommended.
- zxi 13y ago
  cwings? cwings.org from 2007?
- jon_r 13y ago
  Give the fuss you kicked up about meanpath earlier I'm not sure you can really claim "one-of-a-kind" here... That said it looks good and the demo seems to work now, good job! Just out of curiosity what's the UA of your crawler? Curious to see if it's hit any of my sites.
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nadiac 13y ago
Can be it used to find open source client side code/libraries that are used out of the open source licence?
- dbielik 13y ago
  Absolutely! Any snippet of source code can easily be searched... for example, "jquery.min.js": https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=jquery.min.js/searchPage=1/sort=pop https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=jquery.min...
jusob 13y ago
Good idea. Are there some limitations by default? It looks like I can only see the fist 8 results. It's not clear at all whether it is a bug or deliberate limitation.
- dbielik 13y ago
  Guests have access to the top 10 results, but depending on how common the code you search for is, you may get less than 10. We usually see millions of results for more common terms. What was your search out of curiosity? Thanks for the comments, keep 'em coming!
sebg 13y ago
From your pricing page => https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing 25 cents a search seems a bit high for the most basic searches. Realize this could be so that you don't have to sell ad-space and to make money right away (and fast). Test query [ d3.behavior.zoom] results: nerdydata => 11 code results stack overflow => 126 results github => 4,824 code results bing => 283,000 results google => 593,000 results edit: I am really excited about this as finding websites with live code examples in JS would be extremely useful. Better to see live code than someone's (perhaps old?) blog post about how they did it.
- _nderscore 13y ago
  The site seems to only index homepages right now.
websirs 13y ago
SEO, backlinks and images page shows full PHP source code https://search.nerdydata.com/SEO https://search.nerdydata.com/SEO https://search.nerdydata.com/backlinks https://search.nerdydata.com/backlinks https://search.nerdydata.com/images https://search.nerdydata.com/images

18 points by cwings 13y ago

Hey HackerNews! We're proud to announce the launch of our one-of-a-kind source code search engine. Our team is 2 recent graduates who are trying to undertake the herculean challenge of building a search engine. Traditional search engines only index the text of webpages. We go deeper, and get all the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more. All feedback is welcome, we're new and trying to improve.

wikiburner 13y ago
Dude, I upvoted you, but you really want to prefix your post with "Show HN: " - you'll get a lot more attention that way.
- cwings 13y ago
  Thanks I appreciate it! Did you make a search?
  - wikiburner 13y ago
    Sorry, not yet, but I will. I got you bookmarked because I noticed the brouhaha earlier with that other search site. It sounds interesting, though. It's been almost an hour and you only have my 1 upvote, so to be honest your submission really doesn't look like it's going anywhere. I'd resubmit tomorrow at around 7:30 to 8:30am EST, and I'd do it as a "Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers", but don't put put your url in the "url" field - put it in the "text" box, along with your "Hey HackerNews!..." copy. Posts submitted that way will be much more likely to get upvotes, and you'll linger in the "Ask" section (see the link at the top nav. bar) for about a week or so. Update: I was recommending that you kill this submission, but scratch that. You're on the home page now, so maybe it'll take off. If not, just resubmit next week the way I mention above.
    - dbielik 13y ago
      Thanks! Great advice!
  - wikiburner 13y ago
    Whoops, ignore my comment to delete this submission. You're at 5 points and on the home page. If you don't get any more pickup than this, consider resubmitting next week the way I recommended.
zxi 13y ago
cwings? cwings.org from 2007?
jon_r 13y ago
Give the fuss you kicked up about meanpath earlier I'm not sure you can really claim "one-of-a-kind" here... That said it looks good and the demo seems to work now, good job! Just out of curiosity what's the UA of your crawler? Curious to see if it's hit any of my sites.

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nadiac 13y ago

Can be it used to find open source client side code/libraries that are used out of the open source licence?

dbielik 13y ago
Absolutely! Any snippet of source code can easily be searched... for example, "jquery.min.js": https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=jquery.min.js/searchPage=1/sort=pop https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=jquery.min...

jusob 13y ago

Good idea. Are there some limitations by default? It looks like I can only see the fist 8 results. It's not clear at all whether it is a bug or deliberate limitation.

dbielik 13y ago
Guests have access to the top 10 results, but depending on how common the code you search for is, you may get less than 10. We usually see millions of results for more common terms. What was your search out of curiosity? Thanks for the comments, keep 'em coming!

sebg 13y ago

From your pricing page => https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing 25 cents a search seems a bit high for the most basic searches. Realize this could be so that you don't have to sell ad-space and to make money right away (and fast). Test query [ d3.behavior.zoom] results: nerdydata => 11 code results stack overflow => 126 results github => 4,824 code results bing => 283,000 results google => 593,000 results edit: I am really excited about this as finding websites with live code examples in JS would be extremely useful. Better to see live code than someone's (perhaps old?) blog post about how they did it.

_nderscore 13y ago
The site seems to only index homepages right now.

websirs 13y ago

SEO, backlinks and images page shows full PHP source code https://search.nerdydata.com/SEO https://search.nerdydata.com/SEO https://search.nerdydata.com/backlinks https://search.nerdydata.com/backlinks https://search.nerdydata.com/images https://search.nerdydata.com/images