Greggit – Google but it's only the Reddit results • Hacker News Board

johng wrote: post #3

pmdulaney wrote: post #2

GigaBrain used to provide this, until reddit no longer allowed it.

Isn't using, "site:reddit.com " the same or am I missing something?

It would be interesting to know what exactly Greggit is doing. I'm no expert, but I think the owner of a website can prevent the traditional site: search from finding much of interest.

Re: Greggit – Google but it's only the Reddit results

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Post by johng » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC

pmdulaney wrote: post #4

johng wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't using, "site:reddit.com " the same or am I missing something?

It would be interesting to know what exactly Greggit is doing. I'm no expert, but I think the owner of a website can prevent the traditional site: search from finding much of interest.

But Reddit definitely doesn't do this... since I use this method all the time.

Edit: many pages of hits, for example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%22the+emp...

Re: Greggit – Google but it's only the Reddit results

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Post by goncharom » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 12:37 AM UTC

johng wrote: post #3

pmdulaney wrote: post #2

GigaBrain used to provide this, until reddit no longer allowed it.

Isn't using, "site:reddit.com " the same or am I missing something?

Yes this is literally just appending site: reddit.com to the query and redirecting to google. This page is a single HTML: https://github.com/goncharom/greggit

This was meant as a silly project! I caught myself adding site:reddit.com to a lot of google searches so I figured I’d just make a shortcut.

Re: Greggit – Google but it's only the Reddit results

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Post by pmdulaney » Sat, Nov 29, 2025, 12:36 AM UTC

johng wrote: post #5

pmdulaney wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be interesting to know what exactly Greggit is doing. I'm no expert, but I think the owner of a website can prevent the traditional site: search from finding much of interest.

But Reddit definitely doesn't do this... since I use this method all the time. Edit: many pages of hits, for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%22the+emp...

Maybe what GigaBrain was doing was applying AI to the search results and providing an AI summary.