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A few corrections:

• The company that launched a search tool for Hacker News in 2014 is called Algolia, not Agolia.

• Algolia is not just another search tool, but Hacker News’s official one. It’s the tool you’re redirected to if you enter text into the “Search:” text field that appears at the bottom of many HN pages, such as the home page and story pages.

• The paragraph about the comment ‘Did you win the Putnam?’ is missing the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079. It would also be worth noting that that comment was made in 2007.



Did Algolia start for HN? I thought it was a generic search provider. I always found their search a bit frustrating compared to a first-party one.


Algolia is a generic search provider. I didn’t say otherwise. They “launched a search tool for Hacker News”; they didn’t launch as a search tool.




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