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Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

#12

Post by virtual_void »

I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn.

I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

#13

Post by thrdbndndn »

virtual_void wrote: post #12

I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn. I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic. https://duckduckgo.com/bang

I mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

#14

Post by pluc »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #13
virtual_void wrote: post #12

I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn. I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic. https://duckduckgo.com/bang

I mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.

reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

#15

Post by Gualdrapo »

idontwantthis wrote: post #4

Reddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.

You can just combine the two, without the need of an extension - use Google to search within Reddit.

Say you want to search Reddit for pancakes - your Google search would be

pancakes site:reddit.com

And Google will return the matches it found on reddit.com. Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes")

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

#17

Post by bilekas »

pluc wrote: post #14
thrdbndndn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.

reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study

True. Their implementation of a video player baffles the mind too.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

#18

Post by vgalin »

You can achieve the same result on Firefox without any extention (and maybe Chrome too). To do so have use "Custom Keywords"[0], which kind of allow you to change the behaviour of your search bar. For example, one of my keywords is "rd", and typing "rd my search" in my search bar launch a search on Google with "my search site:reddit.com".

I've seen people doing really cool things using these custom keywords and JS, I don't know if it is very practical but the possibilities are endless.

[0] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by V1ndaar »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #15
idontwantthis wrote: post #4

Reddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.

You can just combine the two, without the need of an extension - use Google to search within Reddit. Say you want to search Reddit for pancakes - your Google search would be pancakes site:reddit.com And Google will return the matches it found on reddit.com. Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes")

> Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes")

I use that quite often to restrict to a subreddit and it works well in my experience.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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vgalin wrote: post #18

You can achieve the same result on Firefox without any extention (and maybe Chrome too). To do so have use "Custom Keywords"[0], which kind of allow you to change the behaviour of your search bar. For example, one of my keywords is "rd", and typing "rd my search" in my search bar launch a search on Google with "my search site:reddit.com". I've seen people doing really cool things using these custom keywords and JS, I…

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