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

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post #70

shameless plug but I wrote this Chrome extension a while back which appends the date, # of upvotes and comments to Reddit search results on Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-help...

What a wonderful extension! Any chance of a Firefox port?

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

#93

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")

For more complex queries, you can use https://github.com/pushshift/api.

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

#94
post #70

shameless plug but I wrote this Chrome extension a while back which appends the date, # of upvotes and comments to Reddit search results on Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-help...

What a wonderful extension! Any chance of a Firefox port?

Not sure I'll get around to it but I have the source here if you want to give it a shot: https://github.com/built-by-as/RedditSearchHelper

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

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post #72
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As well, authenticity can be investigated more than in reviews. If the person has a bunch of genuine seeming posts in other categories the risk of not being authentic is acceptably low for me (might seem like a bit much, but be burned by obscured ads enough times...)

If a tweet gets shared enough, its author gets approached by brands who want to pay them to add ads below the tweet. The same probably happens on Reddit, except it's even easier, because anyone can write a review, since the author of a popular post doesn't have a visibility advantage when posting a reply to it. Just find some random users, and offer to pay them for a good recommendation on some "what is the best prod…

When the results degrade, I'll stop using this approach. This feels like an "argument from cynicism" given that there's a widespread feel this gives better results (and intuitively, this feels like microbartering and more as likely to get a reddit post about the phenomenon as acceptance, no not everyone will accept random $100 solicitations, and they're not influential enough for more)
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