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

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Post by layer8 » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

hyperpl wrote: post #23

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?

On iOS I use Settings –> General –> Keyboards –> Text Replacement to define a replacement “sr” –> “site:reddit.com”. There’s probably some equivalent on Android.

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

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Post by TheRealDunkirk » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

I don't get it. I think I'm batting .005 with getting a good result from Reddit's "hive mind." And Reddit spams my search results so much that it frequently takes up several of the top slots. The net-net is that I often include "-site:reddit.com" in my searches.

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

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Post by TheRealDunkirk » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

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.

What's the point? Product reviews are all gamed. Having been burned several times trying to use "reviews," and buying "the good stuff," only to have it break within a couple years, has soured me on any and all review systems or services (especially Consumer Reports), and convinced me that they only way to get REAL quality is to spend 2x-5x as much for something as the mainstream leader in the category. I believe that nothing you find at Reddit is in any way indicative of an honest review, but, hey, YMMV, TACMA, IANAL, etc., et. al.

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

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Post by jordemort » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

What subject areas does this seem to actually help with? I've heard of people doing it but whenever I try it I seem to get results that are at least as irrelevant as what I'd get from searching the web at large - posts with no replies, or with a bunch of useless and poorly informed ones, random trolling, etc. That is, on the occasions when I'm lucky enough to be able to see the content without Reddit throwing 40 different modals and hiding replies in an effort to get me to sign up.

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

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Post by boringg » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

I think companies/people who are deep in google SEO have also infiltrated reddit. Still better than Google in some regards but only a matter of time before it is degraded beyond useful value.

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

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Post by crowbahr » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #42

I don't get it. I think I'm batting .005 with getting a good result from Reddit's "hive mind." And Reddit spams my search results so much that it frequently takes up several of the top slots. The net-net is that I often include "-site:reddit.com" in my searches.

I'm curious what the 995 bad results you're getting from reddit are.

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

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Post by anonymousab » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

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.

You can also include the subreddit in the site operator for the more lazy of us i.e.

pancakes site:reddit.com/r/memes

Can't force it to return the old.reddit.com versions, unfortunately.

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

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Post by anonymousab » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:24 PM UTC

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...

It's not a belief, it's outcome oriented. I have had more luck troubleshooting a niche issue or finding common viewpoints (negative ones being the most important) on products and problems I am trying to solve via Reddit than the autogen listicles and vaguely related quora posts that make up the vast majority of Google's first 10 page results.

All the signals I am picking up on/using to differentiate a real or usable comment (sometimes paid ones can still be useful!) can of course be gamed the same way Google search or Amazon product reviews can. Reddit can also still be botted.

But in practice I am currently finding more success at home with information sourced from Reddit. That will no doubt change eventually, but right now, it is indeed better for me.

I hint at it above, but we all use Google for different things - buying things, finding things, getting information on a variety of topics. If I'm trying to do something like solve a technical or software issue, it actually doesn't matter if the result is gamed or not - what matters is if I solve the issue. Stackoverflow, Reddit and wikipedia results easily help me reach that end far more often than Google does, especially when Google doesn't seem to often surface the more obscure hobby forums that might have niche information.

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

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Post by addingnumbers » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

crowbahr wrote: post #46

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #42

I don't get it. I think I'm batting .005 with getting a good result from Reddit's "hive mind." And Reddit spams my search results so much that it frequently takes up several of the top slots. The net-net is that I often include "-site:reddit.com" in my searches.

I'm curious what the 995 bad results you're getting from reddit are.

Reddit is big on cargo-cult troubleshooting, you can't show them a TCP windowing problem or path MTU detection failure without "try changing your DNS servers" or "disable auto-negotiate on your Ethernet port" getting a hundred upvotes.

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

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Post by pueblito » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 2:53 PM UTC

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?

r/oilpen is mostly Yocan bots, any hearing aid related subreddit etc