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

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Post by [deleted] »

notRobot wrote: post #21
Gualdrapo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

#32

Post by SamBam »

owlninja wrote: post #25
throw10920 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's fairly well-known that some accounts "karma farm" by posting comment designed to be upvoted, and then use the credibility to sell themselves to marketers. Also, I believe it's fairly straightforward to buy votes in your posts from sock puppet farms.

Here's an old post from a security researcher that wrote papers on this topic, and also experimented with buying votes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...

I am unsure what the current field is like.

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

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Post by K5EiS »

V1ndaar wrote: post #19
Gualdrapo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

same, never had any problems adding subreddits to site: searches

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

#34

Post by bonoboTP »

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.

Doesn't matter, you just have to be one step ahead. There will surely be something else next and as long as average people haven't caught up to the "new method", it will work. Life is a constant test of whether you are able to swim at the front.

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

#35

Post by giancarlostoro »

SamBam wrote: post #32
owlninja wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any examples of what this looks like?

It's fairly well-known that some accounts "karma farm" by posting comment designed to be upvoted, and then use the credibility to sell themselves to marketers. Also, I believe it's fairly straightforward to buy votes in your posts from sock puppet farms. Here's an old post from a security researcher that wrote papers on this topic, and also experimented with buying votes: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl…

If you moderate large enough subs you see this just often enough. They'll find another sub to farm karma on, then come to yours to spam their random new domain. I wish reddit automod could check the age of the domain since it was registered, could help, although it could also be straining on reddits part, but I've seen some weirdo who gets a new domain and spams blogspam thats just ripped off articles with ads all over. I'm surprised they're turning a profit wasting money on so many domains.

Before ever being a submod anywhere, I had no idea of half of what goes on in reddit.

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

#37

Post by napolux »

tarkin2 wrote: post #36

The web and search seem massively broken if we need things like this. It feels like there's a massive opportunity to again make the web more person-to-person rather than corporation/advertisers-to-person.

The problem is that being google a monopoly, people started optimizing websites for the only owner of "search on the internet".

Google is now involved in so much stuff that search seems to not be prominent anymore (when was the last time you see a new big feature in google.com?). And given the fact that being "1st on google" is an outstanding, profitable way to run a website, the uberoptimization is something YOU MUST do.

This way the most optimized website wins, not the best one.

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

#38

Post by ck2 »

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.

Oh it's not something new, many larger subreddits require year+ old accounts, so farms have people create accounts for years now, get a little karma, let it sit for awhile then resell it.

Next presidential campaign is going to be brutal to reddit spam/noise filters, I hope they are ready somehow.

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

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Post by TimLeland »

I've seen several of these add Reddit to Google post recently. Curious if this could be turned into a real product or just adding reddit to searches is good enough? Adding reddit to searches seams to remove all the spammy seo targeted post that are not helpful.

I built a site that is more like a search engine but uses Google: https://gooreddit.com/

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

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Post by layer8 »

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…

Chrome can do the same via search engine shortcuts. This actually should be considered a basic browser feature, and as far as I can tell virtually every desktop browser since IE3 in 1996 does have it built in, it’s just not very well known.
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