Ask HN: How frequently is the search index on hacker news updated?

1 points by smg ↗ HN
I was searching for the hn discussion around Zipkin, a google search lead me to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4077645

However searching for zipkin on hacker news was showing 0 results at least as of Jun 8 9.50am PST.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Zipkin

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They are upgrading their servers, I was told.
The crawler is out of date due to an IP change from a move to an AWS VPC. We're working on getting the crawler up-to-date ASAP.