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

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Post by notRobot »

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")

Can also search like this:

   pancakes site:reddit.com intitle:"/r/memes"
Will show results for pancakes from Reddit, from the memes subreddit.

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

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Post by throw10920 »

superasn wrote: post #16

I think it's only a matter of time before this becomes kinda mainstream, and reddit too will be 'optimized' like google.

It's already happening - marketers are creating sockpuppet accounts on Reddit to promote their products. This approach isn't sustainable.

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

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Post by hyperpl »

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…

I use this extensively on FF desktop but sadly, I don't think I it's available on FF mobile. Has anyone had any luck finding a solution on mobile without needing to type in the extra ~15 character suffix?

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

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #9

It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.

How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"?

Food for thought...

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

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Post by owlninja »

throw10920 wrote: post #22
superasn wrote: post #16

I think it's only a matter of time before this becomes kinda mainstream, and reddit too will be 'optimized' like google.

It's already happening - marketers are creating sockpuppet accounts on Reddit to promote their products. This approach isn't sustainable.

Do you have any examples of what this looks like?

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

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Post by lloydatkinson »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #24
lloydatkinson wrote: post #9

It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.

How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"? Food for thought...

Because humans wrote it, and there is an upvote system. Human content > ML content. Are you saying that HN is also not better than ML clickbait content? I doubt it.

The fact that this is the second reddit append tool mentioned on HN within a week means there is obviously something you are not considering.

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

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #26
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"? Food for thought...

Because humans wrote it, and there is an upvote system. Human content > ML content. Are you saying that HN is also not better than ML clickbait content? I doubt it. The fact that this is the second reddit append tool mentioned on HN within a week means there is obviously something you are not considering.

When you _search_ for content in reddit using Google, the upvote system is irrelevant. You are actually just trusting the same ranking system Google uses for the rest of the Web. Reddit's community moderation does not play a role at all (unless the moderation effectively deleted the content, which it doesn't).

It's not the same to look at HN's frontpage articles (or similarly the most upvoted comments) versus just randomly doing a text search for some obscure topic on HN and looking at whichever crap comes first. Specially when you use the very same search ranking algorithm you already complained tends to give crap.

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

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Post by spupe »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #24
lloydatkinson wrote: post #9

It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.

How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"? Food for thought...

Because it's not easy to monetize a Reddit post. If you attract people to click on your garbage article, you can display ads and extract value. Meanwhile if you post the same bullshit on Reddit, you get nothing.

This is not to say that there are no bots, paid shills and other issues on Reddit, but it is definitely a good filter. It's the same with Stackoverflow vs most coding sites that just rip them off.

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

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Post by WorldPeas »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #24
lloydatkinson wrote: post #9

It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.

How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"? Food for thought...

Honestly reddit is pretty bad, much of it feels like an echo chamber/shilling, but when it comes to things not focused on consuming product(e.g. linux) it's pretty helpful and has gotten me out of jams more than I'd care to admit. I think the reason the information is higher quality in those spheres is because there's no incentive to push something. You don't see people pushing a product on you to rip a cd, they just tell you the DD command(results may vary for macos and windows users), wheras in product oriented subreddits I see things being pushed all the time that at second glance are either crap or expensive. Similarly, these SEO sites are simply scraping documentation from oracle, and answers from stack overflow and slapping ads on them to make money. I reckon if reddit users got paid to post we'd see a whole lot more botting.

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

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Post by titaniumtown »

amitlevy49 wrote: post #7
johndfsgdgdfg wrote: post #5

The better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.

I'm actually working on an alternative to Google (though the goal being improved search, not improved privacy), I made this extension during one of the breaks from working on that

> not improved privacy

gl

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