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nerdydata.com

18 points by cwings 12 years ago · 17 comments

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sebg 12 years ago

From your pricing page => 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.

cwingsOP 12 years 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.

  • jon_r 12 years 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.

  • wikiburner 12 years 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.

    • cwingsOP 12 years ago

      Thanks I appreciate it! Did you make a search?

      • wikiburner 12 years 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.

      • wikiburner 12 years 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 12 years ago

    cwings? cwings.org from 2007?

jusob 12 years 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 12 years 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!

websirs 12 years ago

SEO, backlinks and images page shows full PHP source code

https://search.nerdydata.com/SEO https://search.nerdydata.com/backlinks https://search.nerdydata.com/images

nadiac 12 years ago

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

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