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Ask HN: Is hn.algolia broken? Any other options?

4 points by aprdm ↗ HN
Hey,

I've used https://hn.algolia.com for a long time to search relevant topics in hacker news but lately it isn't showing good results.

Just now I was looking for gantt charts stories by popularity in the last year and got nothing relevant back: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gantt&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story

Tried a few different things (custom time range over a long period of time for example) and nothing. Google is giving me much better results!

Same happened when I was looking into HAProxy articles... any other sites people use to search hacker news? Is it just me or is hn.algolia not as good anymore?

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rococode
I'm not sure about any algolia problems, but is there any specific reason you don't want to just use Google? (that's what I use to search HN) If you tack on "site:ycombinator.com" it generally works great for site-specific searches. You can do time ranges and more advanced searches as well.
redox_
(algolia employee speaking) Please don't hesitate to reach out to us using support@algolia.com, we would love to better understand your issues and ultimately improve the relevancy.