To see other Reddit options, !bangs Reddit.
...my default/ basic DDG search. I ublock all the graphics and stuff, too.
I didn't know about !searchr, wish it was shorter. At least it's better than what I've been doing which is typing out site:reddit.com.
I use the shortcut "rs" for https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s
Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the %s part of the bookmark URL
Works very well with any site.
My rule for reddit:
reddit: www -> old
Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/*
to: https://old.reddit.com/$1Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"). Once you do this you'll now see old Reddit on www.reddit.com.
It’s frustrating that there are clear regressions on mobile even for a mobile centric overhaul.
On mobile particularly if logged out (or particularly particularly if in a private browsing mode) it's quite aggressive about trying to push you to the app, or letting you view only a couple comments in a thread before saying you're not allowed to see more, or not letting you view some subs at all. "Old" reddit doesn't do any of this.
Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb
In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add
You'll want to use something like this, to taste:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com
More help for Google search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
[meta] Migrate keyword bookmarks into about:preferences managed Search Engines https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653261
site:reddit.com/r/television premier episode discussion
I don’t even need to make sure the browser have focus now.
Reddit search isn't great (https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/w...). But it's improving! (https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_wit...)
In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com
Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate that. Redditle is for you too!
Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D
Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in r/webdev.
GitHub repo - https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle
Did you know that "Redditle" literally means either "with Reddit" or "Reddit it" in Turkish depending on context and is actually the perfect Turkish name for a service that does something using Reddit?
As a similar example, Turkish for "Google it" is "Google'la". To google is "Google'lamak".
PS: The suffixes le/la are the same, vowels in suffixes generally adapt to the word that the get attached to due to vowel harmony.
> u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the truth
- scraping, probably against TOU - api -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ - same, except embed -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
context - we use all of those plus Bing, etc. for https://breezethat.com
I would look into the Reddit trademark situation. I am pretty sure reddit only allows apps and websites to use "for Reddit" and no other name combinations with their name.
Wikipedia? Sure. StackOverflow? Sometimes.
I occasionally prefer Quora links, only because I'm active there and there's a chance I'll know the person (and thus have some faith in their answer). Is it something like that?
What is it about Reddit that I'm missing?
Not everything is about truth or untruth. Some things are opinions, and some opinions are worse than others. Some are just spam.
Search engines have been absolutely destroyed by blog spam. Look up info on new hardware? Dozens of amazon referral blog spam. Look up information about hobbies? Dozens of blog spam trying to either sell you something or get ad revenue. Look up an obscure thought about something civil in nature? A mix between thousand page government docs that I don't know how to navigate, a few dozen irrelevant "news" articles, and more blog spam.
At least with reddit I can usually find something that is not blog spam, and I'm generally familiar with the biases of various subs. It's far from perfect, but I don't know anything better in the general case.
If I search with `site:reddit.com`, I get actual users discussing their problem and what solutions they've tried.
Reddit is a catch-all for communities nowadays, where you can generally find authentic questions and answers to most common problems and discussions about most common topics.
Personally I trust (some parts of) Reddit far more than Quora, where the content seems to be largely SEO/marketing crap and not authentic.
Reddit does have the same SEO/marketing crap content, to be sure, but it has a lot of authentic content too, and I find it’s generally easy to tell what is what.
I guess for me it boils down to authenticity being more important than authority or expertise, because one of the largest problems with the web today is inauthentic content, content where the author has an ulterior motive.
Recently there has been an influx of paid reviews and opinions everywhere, yt comments, Amazon reviews and even reddit comments. So take everything with a truckload of salt but given the limited content I have to source, reddit is as good as it gets. Someone should build yt comments extractor and search on top of that.
Op thx for the tool it is on my homepage now.
I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.
I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any content that displays on every page in the sub, like the rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself is old.
If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.
This has been frustrating me to no end.
Te results on Google will show the reddit posts with dates within the last 6-12 months for the posts, then when I click into the post it was actually made 3-4 years ago.
There will be "<Post title - reddit.com> - 05/05/21", then you click that link, and the post was actually made 7 years ago, with the last comment being 7 years ago.
If this problem was solved then it's game over.
site:reddit.com also works and we'll be adding a reddit tab in results soooooon
lots more examples of time-based queries in this view of my twitter timeline, https://twitter.com/search?q=dotdotjames%20breezethat.com&sr...
- https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar...
- https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/
- https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-f...
Your website should help me with that !
The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as having activity from within a few years or even days on google. The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the website
ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
Maybe I'm different, but for me, reading about politics it's important to read about opinions that differ from mainstream and might not be accepted everywhere, to challenge my own opinions. And the format of "upvoted content at the top" really works against that. Traditional forums where the format is "oldest content at the top" works much better for it. I've found technical content (where facts are just facts) works much better with the reddit model (and HN).
Based on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946792#30948119
I guess some folks are working on ruining the idea of specifically searching for Reddit, but their efforts are pretty transparent at this point.
Edit: That's weird, it seems to be working now.
I stumbled upon this when looking for the dark mode toggle and was very happy.
It shows reddit (also HN, and others when relevant) filtered results in a sidebar for Google queries. It's auto expanded when there's a non-navigational query with no onebox (this is a increasingly becoming a good indicator of when Google is lacking decisiveness in a query).
Example: https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW For Chrome or Edge: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojage... For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-d... Source: https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch
Feedback or change requests are appreciated via Github!
I wonder how much this has contributed to Reddit crowding out other discussion forums.
ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
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It has definitely improved my workflow and a lot more features are planned such as Github repo/issue previews and support for Searx. It currently works with Google and DuckDuckGo, although it is still in the early stages.
https://github.com/lassebomh/more-rich-results
To install you need to download the repo, enable developer mode for extensions in your browser and press Load unpacked.
Like lately I wanted to learn about Go and was just floored at how much documentation and snippets of code I could use in my first project, so I just gave up. There are things I want to learn, but don't have the dedication & discipline to set aside 5 hours to make those initial first steps.
This is why I double down on topics I am currently proficient at, and when I find something that can go exponential the more time I spend on it, the better it is for me. Build on strength.
Random websites on the other hand... If i'm looking for a recipe, why do I have to read several paragraphs about what you did last Tuesday? Anecdotal preambles are the worst.
!searchr Hacker News
OR
!ddgr Hacker NewsI add it because Google results are shit.
PS. FireFox (latest) didn't recognize it as a search engine. I can't add it to my search engines. It would be nice if this is something you can update on the backend side.
P.s. I will not use the service, showing that I insist on typing the additional word every time is my way of saying: 1. I don't want Google to return anything else 2. Reddit developers can't implement search correctly.
The subreddit could be listed on its own line. Perhaps something like:
<date> <subreddit> <post|comment> <points> <username>
Not sure about the usefulness of the username, but it could be helpful to distinguish whether it's a post or a comment.
Especially looking into new libraries or programming languages, I always append "hackernews" to my search
I actually build the same thing a few weeks back: https://searchbettr.com but it redirects instantly to a Google search so you don't have to deal with the API.
Redittle: No results found :(
Google "difference between samsung galaxy S and A site:reddit.com" - decent results.
It’s now called insideropinion.com sell to companies.
I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff to get out of Reddit.
Also, I'm pretty surprised that Google doesn't block AWS from doing automated queries.
I love that in Kagi.com this can be done quickly with lenses (filters). Without JS.
Good to know
Who would give a damn about socialist censorship when you have a better alternative: a capitalist internet?