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I use `site:reddit.com` instead of `inurl:...` or just reddit.
by daxuak 5y ago
I use `site:reddit.com` instead of `inurl:...` or just reddit.
- umvi 5y agoCompanies are adapting to this too - marketers are increasingly purchasing or grooming high-rep accounts for astroturfing select subreddits related to company products
- jcfrei 5y agoLet's hope reddit users catch on to this and downvote such posts / comments.
- asdff 5y agoThey don't, honestly this stuff goes to the top and its been this way for a long long time. Any niche interest subreddit that has gear or products has a sidebar with some stuff that's ordained by the moderation team to be "The best X for Y" and therefore incessantly recommended in the comments and all over the subreddit. Sometimes you will even see metathreads where the users are complaining about the recommendations listed in the subreddit's official wiki or faq page.
- technion 5y agoThere's been a influx of "memes" that just say things like "when you buy new sunglasses from x.com" and it's just a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio making a face. My own friends repost these things on social media because they are "funny". Not only do people not see problem, they literally see ads as worthy of being reshared.
- sph 5y agoYes, companies on Reddit have learned to use memes to promote their product organically on that site. And if a meme is particularly good, soon you have unaffiliated users happily parroting it, just like that "Hotel? T***" which I've seen mentioned so many times on that site from random users. Or just have a memelord managing your Twitter, and soon your latest funny post will find its place all over the internet. I have never eaten at Wendy's in my life nor stepped on US soil once, yet I have seen their "memes" dozens of times.
- TheRealDunkirk 5y agoI don't know what you people are on about. I have never found useful information at Reddit. I frequently use "-site:reddit.com" to avoid the nonsense.
- thangalin 5y agoA combination that works well for product recommendations: site:reddit.com inurl:bifl
- Bombthecat 5y agoWhy bifl? What's for?
- Dachande663 5y agoBuy It For Life. Subreddit aimed at buying once vs the modern buy cheap, buy twice.
- notreallyserio 5y agoIt's unfortunately a lot of survivor bias, but I like looking at photos of turn of the century items.
- zbentley 5y ago> It's unfortunately a lot of survivor bias In this case, isn't that the selection criteria rather than an interfering bias?
- Rastonbury 5y agoThat comment was hilariously oblivious
- notreallyserio 5y agoIt's both, I think. If the goal is to find high quality items survivor bias can definitely interfere with the results. The items must survive long enough to count as something you can use "for life" and it's possible, even likely, that they only survived due to low use or extraordinary care.
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- geoduck14 5y agoSerious question: Why don't you go straight to reddit, and search there?
- drumhead 5y agoreddit search is awful and has been since the beginning. Im hoping they spend some of the money theyve raised on improving that as a priority.
- tomrod 5y agoThey seem to be fixated instead on forcing a terrible UI front end and ... not much else. Maybe some moderator tool updates after a decade that were also user hostile.
- vxNsr 5y agoBec Reddit search itself is worse than google
- ncann 5y agoWorse than Google is putting it lightly... It's more or less useless.
- skeletal88 5y agoAt reddit they decided that you should not have to option to restrict your search to a specific subreddit anymore. Why they did that? It's a terrible idea!
- detaro 5y agoFor me reddit defaults to "search in current subreddit", with a link to "Show results from all of Reddit" at the top?
- richardsocher 5y agoIf you get an account on you.com you can set that preference once and your preferred sites will always come up higher.