Yes. I just like SearchYC a lot.

I liked the fact you could just type "searchyc.com/$queryString" and it would give the results.

That is the way I use it, much better than the new one that requires javascript to do everything.

Search is integrated? Where is it?

Scroll all the way down.

Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.

How long has it existed? How did I miss this?

Yeah I nearly missed it too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736

it's basically unusable for anyone using an auto page loading extension like AutoPatchWork since the auto loaded next page replaces the bottom of the page.