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

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Post by crowbahr »

addingnumbers wrote: post #49
crowbahr wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ah, I see.

Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for... or even better what the specific web forums dedicated to that topic are for.

But I also rarely encounter a problem that doesn't have an answer ready to hand.

My experience with searching Reddit mostly comes for looking for basic shopping suggestions, specific item reviews, general knowledge type info.

If you're looking for detailed and complex analysis of what's going on an open forum that rewards broadly appealing advice and answers is very obviously not the solution.

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

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

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.

Also the accuracy of Reddit date ranges as listed in Google search is broken then works then it's broken again so you just hope for the best on any given day. Seems to be working at the moment.

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

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Post by seanhunter »

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...

With you on this. It depends hugely on which subreddit and the subreddit approach to moderation but on average I would say reddit is reflective of (and in many cases worse than) the general level of quality of the www as a whole.

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

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Post by dmschulman »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #43
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…

Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.

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

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Post by elicash »

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 was JUST researching whether air ducts should get cleaned from dust, and google results while mixed were mostly pretty good and gave a quality EPA page as result number one -- not a marketing blog. (Though the question and answer part of google was mixed with the number two question being answered by saying to have them cleaned every 2 to 3 years, which is crazy. Also, I think this crowd is savvier than most about knowing when a website is just marketing and when to ignore it.)

But reddit still had much better information than google overall explaining experiences and why you almost certainly don't need them cleaned minus the 3 reasons EPA mentions.

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

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Post by hidden-spyder »

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 could also just do:

> pancakes site:reddit.com/r/memes

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