I totally agree with you. For a hacker site like this, the absence of built-in search feature is something outrageous.

Sometimes I just want to check whether the story/news has been submitted or not. Doing this on Google is really frustrating and can lead me to the wrong result. So don't blame for any duplicated stories sent by me.

That's been requested a few times already. Normally I'd grumpily write "search the archives before posting feature requests", but, wel...