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Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

448 points by greentfrapp 5y ago

neurotrace 5y ago
I've gotten so used to seeing variants of Wordle that I read "Redditle" and immediately thought it was some sort of Reddit-based Wordle
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  Yeah I know! I wanted to go for geddit.com which would have been perfect but it was taken.
- copperx 5y ago
  I thought it was a product by Readdle, which coincidentally has similar branding colors.
TimLeland 5y ago
Funny I built the same thing a couple weeks ago: https://gooreddit.com/ https://gooreddit.com/
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  Oh nice high five! Plus that's the smart way to do it like oh_sigh mentioned in their comment too
  - TimLeland 5y ago
    Haha thanks! I took the simple route that saves a few keystrokes.
jack335 5y ago
Cool! I am not the only one who is doing that :D Good to know
greentfrapp 5y ago
Hi HN! I built redditle.com for those of us who append "reddit" to our Google searches. Reddit search isn't great (https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/why_is_the_reddit_search_bar_so_useless_seriously/ https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/w...). But it's improving! (https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_with_reddit_search_episode_v_relevance/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_wit...) In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com https://redditle.com Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate that. Redditle is for you too! Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in r/webdev. GitHub repo - https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle
- lucasyvas 5y ago
  Just want to say that I love this - I'm the exact target for it! I had considered doing something similar as a TUI, but my lazy ass never got around to it :)
- loceng 5y ago
  Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great with understanding statistics will believe it - and which media easily will promote as clickbait, making it a popular "truth" that the masses get familiarized with even if a shallow and incorrect conclusion is propagated.
  - lostlogin 5y ago
    If looking for answers to technical questions and sick of the Stackoverflow ‘already answered’ and weird elitism, a Reddit search can be illuminating.
- vasilakisfil 5y ago
  nice! I use that quite often, so it might come handy. Quick question, how did you build that ? Does Google provide any sort of API or did you build a web scraper for that ?
nfadili 5y ago
This is a fun idea, and works exactly as described! I really like how the styling feels like google search too.
ComradePhil 5y ago
This needs an "amp" feature so you never have to go to the reddit website/app.
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  Hold on what's that? It sounds really cool but I've never heard of it.
  - jkingsman 5y ago
    AMP[1] is a (somewhat maligned) Google 'standard' which encourages a 'thin' version of sites with minimal assets and fast load times so that Google can display them in a sort of iframe-like context without the user actually having to leave the Google site (part of why it's maligned). Most site's AMP versions are lightweight and bypass any login/paywall because they want Google to show the rich results of this page. I'm guessing this person is interested in you using the AMP versions of Reddit which may be lighter, zippier, and not require login. I'm not sure if it's possible for a third party to display an AMP page the way Google does, though -- maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1]: https://developers.google.com/amp https://developers.google.com/amp
    - greentfrapp 5y ago
      Ahhh interesting - thanks so much for the explanation!
- PUSH_AX 5y ago
  The amp version of reddit is horrific.
trinovantes 5y ago
Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com" and set the bookmark keyword to whatever prefix you prefer e.g. "r". This config will let me search reddit by typing "r vuejs" my Firefox's address bar
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  TIL! +100
- 3OCSzk 5y ago
  Adding to the protip: there is https://mycroftproject.com https://mycroftproject.com that is full of premade custom search engines to save you the hassle of making them manually
- jackallis 5y ago
  can you expand that further how to for the non-initiated.
  - trinovantes 5y ago
    I posted some screenshots on my website https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-search-in-firefox https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-... Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the %s part of the bookmark URL
- joshuamarksmith 5y ago
  Works in Chrome too. I use the shortcut "rs" for https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s https://www.reddit.com/r/%s
  - ayush000 5y ago
ARandomerDude 5y ago
I get a blank screen with a 500 and some JS errors every time. POST https://4781toi2w8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/default/redditle-search 500 Error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'match') at index.0dca874d.js:5:25633 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length') at Proxy.Yu (index.0dca874d.js:5:28261)
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  Oh no I think my lambda is dying - I didn't expect this to blow up LOL let me fix that!
leeoniya 5y ago
please add option to use the old.reddit.com domain. the new Reddit frontend is an unmitigated disaster.
- notsahil 5y ago
  You can use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... or https://libredirect.github.io https://libredirect.github.io if you want Libreddit
  - nicklaf 5y ago
    And in general: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ My rule for reddit: reddit: www -> old Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/* to: https://old.reddit.com/$1
    - unpixer 5y ago
      +1 for Redirector. Also useful, for example, if you want to be the one in charge of whether your browser uses the desktop version of Wikipedia rather than the mobile one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org -> https://en.wikipedia.org Redirect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org(\/.\\*)? to: https://en.wikipedia.org$1
- greatpostman 5y ago
  Years after using the new UI, I still think this.
- tmpz22 5y ago
  On new Reddit I get infinite loading on mobile, which forces me to type in old. It’s frustrating that there are clear regressions on mobile even for a mobile centric overhaul.
  - squeaky-clean 5y ago
    On some posts on mobile I get an overlay telling me to either create an account, or view r/popular, with no choice to view the post I found via search. If you do sign in you get 2, sometimes 3 consecutive popups to use their app. They definitely don't care about the mobile web experience except as a means to market their app
notsahil 5y ago
I get blank page with https://redditle.com/search?q=linux https://redditle.com/search?q=linux
Bo0kerDeWitt 5y ago
Hmm, if I search "nordic curls" I get "No results found". If I Google "nordic curls reddit" the first hit is an incredibly useful reddit post. Edit: That's weird, it seems to be working now.
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  oof could you try that again? I just increased the capacity of the lambda - it was previously timing out from too many requests.
  - Bo0kerDeWitt 5y ago
    Yup, working! Looks cool.
    - greentfrapp 5y ago
      Thanks! Also, just wanted to say I love Bioshock Infinite too. But more the Lutece twins than DeWitt
k8sToGo 5y ago
It says it is overwhelmed for me.
- ehsankia 5y ago
  HN hug of death.
oh_sigh 5y ago
Assuming this is just for fun and not an attempt at an actual business, why not just forward the user to www.google.com/search?q=my_query after appending "+site:Reddit.com" or whatever? This could be done with a statically served 1kb HTML file with no server otherwise required to handle requests.
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  Ahh this is actually a really really good point - I just pulled this out of my butt today as a fun coding project haha but what you described would be a much smarter way to do it. Less fun though! Oh well I'll just leave this up, I'm guessing the traffic will probably die down after awhile.
toomuchtodo 5y ago
Feature request: subreddit autocomplete at the beginning of a query.
ehsankia 5y ago
Here I thought it was another Wordle game, not a good time to name your product <name>le
- cwillu 5y ago
  “Introducing the newest wordle clone: google! Try to guess the correct search terms to find your target in under 5 searches!”
nofinator 5y ago
FYI, there are some DuckDuckGo bangs (shortcuts) for this too. For example, if you wanted to search for Hacker News, try: !searchr Hacker News OR !ddgr Hacker News
lettergram 5y ago
Funny I used to have something called redditprofile.com that did something similar. Let you view trends as well, etc. It’s now called insideropinion.com sell to companies. I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff to get out of Reddit.
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vmoore 5y ago
Hackernews' Algolia search function is also a wealth of information. Basically any useful site (& comment) you can imagine is stored there, if you care to look. It's almost too good to be true, but you have to be in a serendipitous mindset to dive into certain topics, and also have something precious to us all: time. There's rabbit-holes on certain topics where I genuinely don't have the time to delve any further. Like lately I wanted to learn about Go and was just floored at how much documentation and snippets of code I could use in my first project, so I just gave up. There are things I want to learn, but don't have the dedication & discipline to set aside 5 hours to make those initial first steps. This is why I double down on topics I am currently proficient at, and when I find something that can go exponential the more time I spend on it, the better it is for me. Build on strength.
epa 5y ago
Google's search result quality has been abysmal for years now, cheers for this.
oraoraoraoraora 5y ago
Reddle ftfy
yewenjie 5y ago
I just use a custom regex with the Redirector extension for searching in any subreddit. https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
paulpauper 5y ago
The problem, is that Google often serves up old reddit threads as new due to some bug in "search by date" feature. You end up with 10-year-old reddit threads showing up having a date from 7 days ago.
- ehPReth 5y ago
  Is it a bug with Google or is it Reddit trying to growth hack again? They have been shady especially with mobile
- zerocrates 5y ago
  Really old Reddit threads do occasionally show up with very current dates on Google. I don't know if this is Google's fault, Reddit's fault, or both.
- aghilmort 5y ago
  we have a time filter on breeze, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%22+after%3A2022-04-01+site%3Areddit.com https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%... ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
tetraca 5y ago
So, how long until marketers also completely ruin this avenue to get real opinions about things?
- sebmellen 5y ago
  We can't let them discover it.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  Well, there are definitely shill accounts on reddit, but not enough to ruin the site. And the whole point of the site is to argue with people, so I guess it should be possible to, at least sometimes, tell if something is up. Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946792#30948119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946792#30948119 I guess some folks are working on ruining the idea of specifically searching for Reddit, but their efforts are pretty transparent at this point.
Lamad123 5y ago
Going with some kind of browser extension would've been better!!
exotree 5y ago
Love this. Thank you. Definitely something I will use every day. Would love to provide "coffee money" ($5/month) to keep the lights on.
parentheses 5y ago
It would be nice if this supported <insert search engine> AND the ability to choose.
simlevesque 5y ago
I've noticed an increased amount of search hijacking related to "reddit" these days. The results are flooded with results such as these when I search for "axiom trekk reddit": - https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar-w-rack-eyelets-31-8mm https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar... - https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/ https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/ - https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-for-back-rack-31-8-black-b0064qgidc/ https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-f... Your website should help me with that !
- silicon2401 5y ago
  that's easily fixed by googling "blah blah site:reddit.com" The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as having activity from within a few years or even days on google. The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the website
  - aghilmort 5y ago
    we have a time filter on breeze, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%22+after%3A2022-04-01+site%3Areddit.com https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%... ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
- arsome 5y ago
  If you're using it for product research, probably not the best idea - I'm betting that people who append site:reddit.com to their queries are not the only ones who've noticed it being a better place to find information sometimes... marketers will, if not, already have, heavily infiltrated popular subreddits, especially to manufacture consensus on good products.
slig 5y ago
Congrats! Hope to try it as soon as it comes back. Also, I'm pretty surprised that Google doesn't block AWS from doing automated queries.
abdussamit 5y ago
Internal Server Error!
abhinavsharma 5y ago
I built a desktop browser extension version (100% open source and GPL licensed) of this basic idea or side searching filtered to some sites only. It also just uses your browser's default search engine (so you can stick to DuckDuckGo for example). Usually I don't like to plug on HN but thought this is uniquely relevant. It shows reddit (also HN, and others when relevant) filtered results in a sidebar for Google queries. It's auto expanded when there's a non-navigational query with no onebox (this is a increasingly becoming a good indicator of when Google is lacking decisiveness in a query). Example: https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW For Chrome or Edge: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojagelicdlhnmldaiplbppfbolnnag http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojage... For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-desktop/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-d... Source: https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch Feedback or change requests are appreciated via Github!
- abhinavsharma 5y ago
  adding a direct link to the screenshot since it hit the limit https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b7-560c-4ec9-9ad0-2c9e35089d96.jpg?source=viewer&v=1b90632d1a09ad33bead81efe280fa33 https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b...
greentfrapp 5y ago
Thanks everyone for the HN hug of death on this little side project of mine! It's been crazyyyy. And if it's okay I also just wanted to give a small shout out to my other project at https://catche.co https://catche.co - we've got about 30 people on that waitlist, check it out!
- user- 5y ago
  I think you might want to make the 'Learn More' stand out against the white background. I didn't see it at all and almost closed the tab until I noticed it.
amar-laksh 5y ago
Obligatory Reddit scroller comment: https://scrolller.com/ https://scrolller.com/ (The best photo aggregator for reddit)
- k8sToGo 5y ago
  Addicting infinite scrolling ahead. Trying to avoid these things. But I like the UX
mfrye0 5y ago
Seems that you're getting the HN hug of death right now. The site is unusable.
jawmes9 5y ago
Most searches I do now are search + {nameOfForum} Especially looking into new libraries or programming languages, I always append "hackernews" to my search
ipunchghosts 5y ago
I have been doing this for months. Didnt know other people did this!
zander312 5y ago
hug of death for me
- supah 5y ago
  8 hours later, still getting hugged - Probably google blocked the requests.
  - greentfrapp 5y ago
    Oh could you give it a try now? I just woke up and got around to fixing some of the scaling issues - it's not perfect but at least it's only failing 5% of queries when I load-tested with locust. Will get around to better fixes later!
    - supah 5y ago
      Seems to produce the same. Tried a bunch of searches including something very generic, but ‘No results found :(‘ on each occasion. q=bronco {"has_prev": false, "has_next": false, "results": []}
guanzo 5y ago
Hah, you got me. Reddit content is efficient to browse (old reddit UI), has multiple POVs, and upvotes is a decent heuristic for determining answer quality. Random websites on the other hand... If i'm looking for a recipe, why do I have to read several paragraphs about what you did last Tuesday? Anecdotal preambles are the worst.
jfengel 5y ago
I don't use Reddit, and haven't found it terribly interesting. Why would somebody want to use it as a primary source of truth? Wikipedia? Sure. StackOverflow? Sometimes. I occasionally prefer Quora links, only because I'm active there and there's a chance I'll know the person (and thus have some faith in their answer). Is it something like that? What is it about Reddit that I'm missing?
- casperc 5y ago
  For me it is good to find an honest discussion of a thing (e.g. tool, tv series) rather than whatever paid-for article or review which would otherwise appear first.
- Zebfross 5y ago
  It can be the most reliable place to find a group of real people all knowledgeable about the same thing. So things like “best weekend itinerary in x city”.
- Sherl 5y ago
  Straight up Google results are too manipulated by machine generated blogs for SEO. Google "best x" you would end up in a blog post made of Amazon affiliate links. Same goes for product reviews, it's impossible to find blogs that cover reviews on everyday products barring a few. Reddit has become a gold mine for some when it comes to product reviews and research. "Give a man a mask, he will tell you the truth" - with quora your identity being associated some hesitate on stark opinions but with reddit, you can do whatever you want to say and the community takes care of it with upvotes and karma. Recently there has been an influx of paid reviews and opinions everywhere, yt comments, Amazon reviews and even reddit comments. So take everything with a truckload of salt but given the limited content I have to source, reddit is as good as it gets. Someone should build yt comments extractor and search on top of that.
- gundamdoubleO 5y ago
  I use it to get a more informed idea of products I'm thinking about buying. For example if I'm looking up a specific pair of headphones I'll usually read around on there to see what people think of them.
tomatowurst 5y ago
neat idea but appending reddit at end of a search in address bar isn't exactly a huge deal enough for me to use an entire search engine altogether
yalogin 5y ago
Nice! In many instances for me searching through subreddits is the only way to go. Did not realize a lot of us do it. Not sure it warrants a new domain though.
mattwad 5y ago
I notice not all results have a date. That is extremely important when looking at Reddit posts, and one of the main issues with Google because old posts will show up as new.
- aghilmort 5y ago
  we have a time filter on breeze, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%22+after%3A2022-04-01+site%3Areddit.com https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%... ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
throwitawayfam 5y ago
The killer feature for me would be time filter. Google doesn't work because the dates listed on the results never match the date of the original post. For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I assume this is some SEO bullshit that Reddit is pulling. I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.
- weare138 5y ago
  >For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any content that displays on every page in the sub, like the rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself is old.
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- oars 5y ago
  This is the only reason I sometimes use Reddit's search over Google. If this problem was solved then it's game over.
- unclekev 5y ago
  > For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. This has been frustrating me to no end. Te results on Google will show the reddit posts with dates within the last 6-12 months for the posts, then when I click into the post it was actually made 3-4 years ago. There will be "<Post title - reddit.com> - 05/05/21", then you click that link, and the post was actually made 7 years ago, with the last comment being 7 years ago.
- mardifoufs 5y ago
  If there's one thing google needs to very very heavily penalize in their page rank algorithm, it's websites that outright lie about date. It makes the entire search process unusable for tons of queries, even more so than if they just didn't display any date. If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.
holoduke 5y ago
I add 'forum' to my question. I don't think Reddit is a good site to answer my questions. Lot more specialized forums with more in depth info. The only topic I use reddit for is politics.
- Pxtl 5y ago
  At this point the granularity of subreddits often make Reddit the main forum of note on many subjects.
- capableweb 5y ago
  > The only topic I use reddit for is politics. Maybe I'm different, but for me, reading about politics it's important to read about opinions that differ from mainstream and might not be accepted everywhere, to challenge my own opinions. And the format of "upvoted content at the top" really works against that. Traditional forums where the format is "oldest content at the top" works much better for it. I've found technical content (where facts are just facts) works much better with the reddit model (and HN).
cush 5y ago
Are we using the "le" suffix for non-Wordle apps now? Reminds me of the "ly" suffix from the early 2010s. Hey, it certainly worked out for Musical.ly
- FalcorTheDog 5y ago
  I suspect you're overthinking it. I'm pretty sure he just took the "le" from Google (Reddit + Google = Redditle).
  - cush 5y ago
    Def overthinking. Googit probably would have a quick shutdown notice.
maerF0x0 5y ago
Killer feature for me would be to kill the use app nag on mobile.
- seabrookmx 5y ago
  You can do this in the settings. Top right hamburger menu > Settings > Uncheck "Ask to open in app." I stumbled upon this when looking for the dark mode toggle and was very happy.
  - maerF0x0 5y ago
    at least when i last tried it, it didnt actually work. It still would nag for 18+, or for folded comments.
propter_hoc 5y ago
Google used to have a feature called Discussions Search that would search forums for results. That allowed you to get discussion results from any forum. Since Google killed it, it's impossible to get discussion results unless you focus on Reddit. I wonder how much this has contributed to Reddit crowding out other discussion forums.
- ConSeannery 5y ago
  I tend to append or prepend site:forum.* to my searches to emulate this missing feature. Not every forum is set up with this url but it's better than nothing
TruthWillHurt 5y ago
I don't add "reddit" because Reddit discussions are good, I add it because Google results are shit.
runjake 5y ago
Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser. Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add You'll want to use something like this, to taste: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com I have these set up for all kinds of sites, and they're accessible straight from my local machines (because: sync) More help for Google search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
- StopDarkPattern 5y ago
  Wait and instead I don't have some random collection of people knowing all my searches? Nooooowayyyyyyy
  - esperent 5y ago
    Are you talking about Google?
    - piaste 5y ago
      No, he's talking about the OP, whose site needs to intercept all your search queries in order to provide the highly valuable service of adding "site:reddit.com" for you.
      - esperent 5y ago
        Oh, I thought he was talking about Google, who intercept all your search terms for the valuable service of providing advertising to you.
- kyleee 5y ago
  or directly to your operating system if using KDE
  - martini333 5y ago
jarrenae 5y ago
Looks great! sorry to see that the API isn't quite working with all the traffic though. I actually build the same thing a few weeks back: https://searchbettr.com https://searchbettr.com but it redirects instantly to a Google search so you don't have to deal with the API.
yubiox 5y ago
I actually want the opposite. Reddit has the forced login thing now, I don't want it to show up in results at all.
Atlas667 5y ago
When the internet has been so comercialized that in order to gain credible information you have to go to a place where you KINDA trust people dont have ulterior motives. Who would give a damn about socialist censorship when you have a better alternative: a capitalist internet?
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kyledrake 5y ago
Context for the uninitiated to this discussion: https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying
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scim-knox-twox 5y ago
@greentfrapp, why you need JS for that? I love that in Kagi.com this can be done quickly with lenses (filters). Without JS.
tytrdev 5y ago
Meh. I tried a single (reasonable) search and got "no results." Probably a fluke but not initially promising.
- groffee 5y ago
bitterblotter 5y ago
I've been working on a browser extension called More Rich Results that you might find useful. It just looks for Reddit and Stack Exchange results and previews them in the sidebar. It makes for a pretty clean search experience when developing or looking for opinions. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/kb5OE0n.gif https://i.imgur.com/kb5OE0n.gif It has definitely improved my workflow and a lot more features are planned such as Github repo/issue previews and support for Searx. It currently works with Google and DuckDuckGo, although it is still in the early stages. https://github.com/lassebomh/more-rich-results https://github.com/lassebomh/more-rich-results To install you need to download the repo, enable developer mode for extensions in your browser and press Load unpacked.
Skiiing 5y ago
Reddit should be removed from Google. It is not possible to view a Reddit page using a mobile browser. Google indexes webpages using an emulated mobile device. Therefore there should be zero pages in the Google index.
senectus1 5y ago
I'd like to be able to sort by Date/Karma etc... its it possible that might be added?
adwi 5y ago
Love this, but just stopped working for me. Did an initial search and got lots of results, came back and reloaded the page to “No results found :(“. Same issue from new window.
zagrebian 5y ago
Why is nobody mentioning Duckduckgo’s !r operator?
jve 5y ago
I was thinking about a realistic query I could use... A-ha: "difference between samsung galaxy S and A" Redittle: No results found :( Google "difference between samsung galaxy S and A site:reddit.com" - decent results.
spurgu 5y ago
Which subreddit the result is found on is inconsistent - it's in some titles, in others not. So it doesn't really stand out and oftentimes that's an important piece of information. The subreddit could be listed on its own line. Perhaps something like: <date> <subreddit> <post|comment> <points> <username> Not sure about the usefulness of the username, but it could be helpful to distinguish whether it's a post or a comment.
lala26in 5y ago
I have used it a bunch of times now since the post appeared on HN. Really impressed. I like it. Good luck people.
bruhhh 4y ago
Awesome project! Looks great! PS. FireFox (latest) didn't recognize it as a search engine. I can't add it to my search engines. It would be nice if this is something you can update on the backend side.
nokya 4y ago
I smiled while reading this item :) I knew I am not the only one doing this but wouldn't have guessed it as common practice. P.s. I will not use the service, showing that I insist on typing the additional word every time is my way of saying: 1. I don't want Google to return anything else 2. Reddit developers can't implement search correctly.

448 points by greentfrapp 5y ago

I've gotten so used to seeing variants of Wordle that I read "Redditle" and immediately thought it was some sort of Reddit-based Wordle

greentfrapp 5y ago
Yeah I know! I wanted to go for geddit.com which would have been perfect but it was taken.
copperx 5y ago
I thought it was a product by Readdle, which coincidentally has similar branding colors.

TimLeland 5y ago

Funny I built the same thing a couple weeks ago: https://gooreddit.com/ https://gooreddit.com/

greentfrapp 5y ago
Oh nice high five! Plus that's the smart way to do it like oh_sigh mentioned in their comment too
- TimLeland 5y ago
  Haha thanks! I took the simple route that saves a few keystrokes.

jack335 5y ago

Cool! I am not the only one who is doing that :D Good to know

greentfrapp 5y ago

Hi HN! I built redditle.com for those of us who append "reddit" to our Google searches. Reddit search isn't great (https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/why_is_the_reddit_search_bar_so_useless_seriously/ https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/w...). But it's improving! (https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_with_reddit_search_episode_v_relevance/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_wit...) In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com https://redditle.com Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate that. Redditle is for you too! Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in r/webdev. GitHub repo - https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle

lucasyvas 5y ago
Just want to say that I love this - I'm the exact target for it! I had considered doing something similar as a TUI, but my lazy ass never got around to it :)
loceng 5y ago
Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great with understanding statistics will believe it - and which media easily will promote as clickbait, making it a popular "truth" that the masses get familiarized with even if a shallow and incorrect conclusion is propagated.
- lostlogin 5y ago
  If looking for answers to technical questions and sick of the Stackoverflow ‘already answered’ and weird elitism, a Reddit search can be illuminating.
vasilakisfil 5y ago
nice! I use that quite often, so it might come handy. Quick question, how did you build that ? Does Google provide any sort of API or did you build a web scraper for that ?

nfadili 5y ago

This is a fun idea, and works exactly as described! I really like how the styling feels like google search too.

ComradePhil 5y ago

This needs an "amp" feature so you never have to go to the reddit website/app.

greentfrapp 5y ago
Hold on what's that? It sounds really cool but I've never heard of it.
- jkingsman 5y ago
  AMP[1] is a (somewhat maligned) Google 'standard' which encourages a 'thin' version of sites with minimal assets and fast load times so that Google can display them in a sort of iframe-like context without the user actually having to leave the Google site (part of why it's maligned). Most site's AMP versions are lightweight and bypass any login/paywall because they want Google to show the rich results of this page. I'm guessing this person is interested in you using the AMP versions of Reddit which may be lighter, zippier, and not require login. I'm not sure if it's possible for a third party to display an AMP page the way Google does, though -- maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1]: https://developers.google.com/amp https://developers.google.com/amp
  - greentfrapp 5y ago
    Ahhh interesting - thanks so much for the explanation!
PUSH_AX 5y ago
The amp version of reddit is horrific.

trinovantes 5y ago

Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com" and set the bookmark keyword to whatever prefix you prefer e.g. "r". This config will let me search reddit by typing "r vuejs" my Firefox's address bar

greentfrapp 5y ago
TIL! +100
3OCSzk 5y ago
Adding to the protip: there is https://mycroftproject.com https://mycroftproject.com that is full of premade custom search engines to save you the hassle of making them manually
jackallis 5y ago
can you expand that further how to for the non-initiated.
- trinovantes 5y ago
  I posted some screenshots on my website https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-search-in-firefox https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-... Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the %s part of the bookmark URL
joshuamarksmith 5y ago
Works in Chrome too. I use the shortcut "rs" for https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s https://www.reddit.com/r/%s
- ayush000 5y ago

ARandomerDude 5y ago

I get a blank screen with a 500 and some JS errors every time. POST https://4781toi2w8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/default/redditle-search 500 Error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'match') at index.0dca874d.js:5:25633 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length') at Proxy.Yu (index.0dca874d.js:5:28261)

greentfrapp 5y ago
Oh no I think my lambda is dying - I didn't expect this to blow up LOL let me fix that!

leeoniya 5y ago

please add option to use the old.reddit.com domain. the new Reddit frontend is an unmitigated disaster.

notsahil 5y ago
You can use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... or https://libredirect.github.io https://libredirect.github.io if you want Libreddit
- nicklaf 5y ago
  And in general: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ My rule for reddit: reddit: www -> old Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/* to: https://old.reddit.com/$1
  - unpixer 5y ago
    +1 for Redirector. Also useful, for example, if you want to be the one in charge of whether your browser uses the desktop version of Wikipedia rather than the mobile one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org -> https://en.wikipedia.org Redirect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org(\/.\\*)? to: https://en.wikipedia.org$1
greatpostman 5y ago
Years after using the new UI, I still think this.
tmpz22 5y ago
On new Reddit I get infinite loading on mobile, which forces me to type in old. It’s frustrating that there are clear regressions on mobile even for a mobile centric overhaul.
- squeaky-clean 5y ago
  On some posts on mobile I get an overlay telling me to either create an account, or view r/popular, with no choice to view the post I found via search. If you do sign in you get 2, sometimes 3 consecutive popups to use their app. They definitely don't care about the mobile web experience except as a means to market their app

notsahil 5y ago

I get blank page with https://redditle.com/search?q=linux https://redditle.com/search?q=linux

Bo0kerDeWitt 5y ago

Hmm, if I search "nordic curls" I get "No results found". If I Google "nordic curls reddit" the first hit is an incredibly useful reddit post. Edit: That's weird, it seems to be working now.

greentfrapp 5y ago
oof could you try that again? I just increased the capacity of the lambda - it was previously timing out from too many requests.
- Bo0kerDeWitt 5y ago
  Yup, working! Looks cool.
  - greentfrapp 5y ago
    Thanks! Also, just wanted to say I love Bioshock Infinite too. But more the Lutece twins than DeWitt

k8sToGo 5y ago

It says it is overwhelmed for me.

ehsankia 5y ago
HN hug of death.

oh_sigh 5y ago

Assuming this is just for fun and not an attempt at an actual business, why not just forward the user to www.google.com/search?q=my_query after appending "+site:Reddit.com" or whatever? This could be done with a statically served 1kb HTML file with no server otherwise required to handle requests.

greentfrapp 5y ago
Ahh this is actually a really really good point - I just pulled this out of my butt today as a fun coding project haha but what you described would be a much smarter way to do it. Less fun though! Oh well I'll just leave this up, I'm guessing the traffic will probably die down after awhile.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

Feature request: subreddit autocomplete at the beginning of a query.

ehsankia 5y ago

Here I thought it was another Wordle game, not a good time to name your product <name>le

cwillu 5y ago
“Introducing the newest wordle clone: google! Try to guess the correct search terms to find your target in under 5 searches!”

nofinator 5y ago

FYI, there are some DuckDuckGo bangs (shortcuts) for this too. For example, if you wanted to search for Hacker News, try: !searchr Hacker News OR !ddgr Hacker News

lettergram 5y ago

Funny I used to have something called redditprofile.com that did something similar. Let you view trends as well, etc. It’s now called insideropinion.com sell to companies. I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff to get out of Reddit.

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vmoore 5y ago

Hackernews' Algolia search function is also a wealth of information. Basically any useful site (& comment) you can imagine is stored there, if you care to look. It's almost too good to be true, but you have to be in a serendipitous mindset to dive into certain topics, and also have something precious to us all: time. There's rabbit-holes on certain topics where I genuinely don't have the time to delve any further. Like lately I wanted to learn about Go and was just floored at how much documentation and snippets of code I could use in my first project, so I just gave up. There are things I want to learn, but don't have the dedication & discipline to set aside 5 hours to make those initial first steps. This is why I double down on topics I am currently proficient at, and when I find something that can go exponential the more time I spend on it, the better it is for me. Build on strength.

epa 5y ago

Google's search result quality has been abysmal for years now, cheers for this.

oraoraoraoraora 5y ago

Reddle ftfy

yewenjie 5y ago

I just use a custom regex with the Redirector extension for searching in any subreddit. https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

paulpauper 5y ago

The problem, is that Google often serves up old reddit threads as new due to some bug in "search by date" feature. You end up with 10-year-old reddit threads showing up having a date from 7 days ago.

ehPReth 5y ago
Is it a bug with Google or is it Reddit trying to growth hack again? They have been shady especially with mobile
zerocrates 5y ago
Really old Reddit threads do occasionally show up with very current dates on Google. I don't know if this is Google's fault, Reddit's fault, or both.
aghilmort 5y ago
we have a time filter on breeze, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%22+after%3A2022-04-01+site%3Areddit.com https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%... ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.

tetraca 5y ago

So, how long until marketers also completely ruin this avenue to get real opinions about things?

sebmellen 5y ago
We can't let them discover it.
bee_rider 5y ago
Well, there are definitely shill accounts on reddit, but not enough to ruin the site. And the whole point of the site is to argue with people, so I guess it should be possible to, at least sometimes, tell if something is up. Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946792#30948119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946792#30948119 I guess some folks are working on ruining the idea of specifically searching for Reddit, but their efforts are pretty transparent at this point.

Lamad123 5y ago

Going with some kind of browser extension would've been better!!

exotree 5y ago

Love this. Thank you. Definitely something I will use every day. Would love to provide "coffee money" ($5/month) to keep the lights on.

parentheses 5y ago

It would be nice if this supported <insert search engine> AND the ability to choose.

simlevesque 5y ago

I've noticed an increased amount of search hijacking related to "reddit" these days. The results are flooded with results such as these when I search for "axiom trekk reddit": - https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar-w-rack-eyelets-31-8mm https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar... - https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/ https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/ - https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-for-back-rack-31-8-black-b0064qgidc/ https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-f... Your website should help me with that !

silicon2401 5y ago
that's easily fixed by googling "blah blah site:reddit.com" The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as having activity from within a few years or even days on google. The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the website
- aghilmort 5y ago
  we have a time filter on breeze, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%22+after%3A2022-04-01+site%3Areddit.com https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%... ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
arsome 5y ago
If you're using it for product research, probably not the best idea - I'm betting that people who append site:reddit.com to their queries are not the only ones who've noticed it being a better place to find information sometimes... marketers will, if not, already have, heavily infiltrated popular subreddits, especially to manufacture consensus on good products.

slig 5y ago

Congrats! Hope to try it as soon as it comes back. Also, I'm pretty surprised that Google doesn't block AWS from doing automated queries.

abdussamit 5y ago

Internal Server Error!

abhinavsharma 5y ago

I built a desktop browser extension version (100% open source and GPL licensed) of this basic idea or side searching filtered to some sites only. It also just uses your browser's default search engine (so you can stick to DuckDuckGo for example). Usually I don't like to plug on HN but thought this is uniquely relevant. It shows reddit (also HN, and others when relevant) filtered results in a sidebar for Google queries. It's auto expanded when there's a non-navigational query with no onebox (this is a increasingly becoming a good indicator of when Google is lacking decisiveness in a query). Example: https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW For Chrome or Edge: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojagelicdlhnmldaiplbppfbolnnag http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojage... For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-desktop/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-d... Source: https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch Feedback or change requests are appreciated via Github!

abhinavsharma 5y ago
adding a direct link to the screenshot since it hit the limit https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b7-560c-4ec9-9ad0-2c9e35089d96.jpg?source=viewer&v=1b90632d1a09ad33bead81efe280fa33 https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b...

greentfrapp 5y ago

Thanks everyone for the HN hug of death on this little side project of mine! It's been crazyyyy. And if it's okay I also just wanted to give a small shout out to my other project at https://catche.co https://catche.co - we've got about 30 people on that waitlist, check it out!

user- 5y ago
I think you might want to make the 'Learn More' stand out against the white background. I didn't see it at all and almost closed the tab until I noticed it.

amar-laksh 5y ago

Obligatory Reddit scroller comment: https://scrolller.com/ https://scrolller.com/ (The best photo aggregator for reddit)

k8sToGo 5y ago
Addicting infinite scrolling ahead. Trying to avoid these things. But I like the UX

mfrye0 5y ago

Seems that you're getting the HN hug of death right now. The site is unusable.

jawmes9 5y ago

Most searches I do now are search + {nameOfForum} Especially looking into new libraries or programming languages, I always append "hackernews" to my search

ipunchghosts 5y ago

I have been doing this for months. Didnt know other people did this!

zander312 5y ago

hug of death for me

supah 5y ago
8 hours later, still getting hugged - Probably google blocked the requests.
- greentfrapp 5y ago
  Oh could you give it a try now? I just woke up and got around to fixing some of the scaling issues - it's not perfect but at least it's only failing 5% of queries when I load-tested with locust. Will get around to better fixes later!
  - supah 5y ago
    Seems to produce the same. Tried a bunch of searches including something very generic, but ‘No results found :(‘ on each occasion. q=bronco {"has_prev": false, "has_next": false, "results": []}

guanzo 5y ago

Hah, you got me. Reddit content is efficient to browse (old reddit UI), has multiple POVs, and upvotes is a decent heuristic for determining answer quality. Random websites on the other hand... If i'm looking for a recipe, why do I have to read several paragraphs about what you did last Tuesday? Anecdotal preambles are the worst.

jfengel 5y ago

I don't use Reddit, and haven't found it terribly interesting. Why would somebody want to use it as a primary source of truth? Wikipedia? Sure. StackOverflow? Sometimes. I occasionally prefer Quora links, only because I'm active there and there's a chance I'll know the person (and thus have some faith in their answer). Is it something like that? What is it about Reddit that I'm missing?

casperc 5y ago
For me it is good to find an honest discussion of a thing (e.g. tool, tv series) rather than whatever paid-for article or review which would otherwise appear first.
Zebfross 5y ago
It can be the most reliable place to find a group of real people all knowledgeable about the same thing. So things like “best weekend itinerary in x city”.
Sherl 5y ago
Straight up Google results are too manipulated by machine generated blogs for SEO. Google "best x" you would end up in a blog post made of Amazon affiliate links. Same goes for product reviews, it's impossible to find blogs that cover reviews on everyday products barring a few. Reddit has become a gold mine for some when it comes to product reviews and research. "Give a man a mask, he will tell you the truth" - with quora your identity being associated some hesitate on stark opinions but with reddit, you can do whatever you want to say and the community takes care of it with upvotes and karma. Recently there has been an influx of paid reviews and opinions everywhere, yt comments, Amazon reviews and even reddit comments. So take everything with a truckload of salt but given the limited content I have to source, reddit is as good as it gets. Someone should build yt comments extractor and search on top of that.
gundamdoubleO 5y ago
I use it to get a more informed idea of products I'm thinking about buying. For example if I'm looking up a specific pair of headphones I'll usually read around on there to see what people think of them.

tomatowurst 5y ago

neat idea but appending reddit at end of a search in address bar isn't exactly a huge deal enough for me to use an entire search engine altogether

yalogin 5y ago

Nice! In many instances for me searching through subreddits is the only way to go. Did not realize a lot of us do it. Not sure it warrants a new domain though.

mattwad 5y ago

I notice not all results have a date. That is extremely important when looking at Reddit posts, and one of the main issues with Google because old posts will show up as new.

aghilmort 5y ago
we have a time filter on breeze, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%22+after%3A2022-04-01+site%3Areddit.com https://breezethat.com/?q=intitle%3Akansas+%22march+madness%... ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.

throwitawayfam 5y ago

The killer feature for me would be time filter. Google doesn't work because the dates listed on the results never match the date of the original post. For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I assume this is some SEO bullshit that Reddit is pulling. I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.

weare138 5y ago
>For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any content that displays on every page in the sub, like the rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself is old.
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oars 5y ago
This is the only reason I sometimes use Reddit's search over Google. If this problem was solved then it's game over.
unclekev 5y ago
> For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. This has been frustrating me to no end. Te results on Google will show the reddit posts with dates within the last 6-12 months for the posts, then when I click into the post it was actually made 3-4 years ago. There will be "<Post title - reddit.com> - 05/05/21", then you click that link, and the post was actually made 7 years ago, with the last comment being 7 years ago.
mardifoufs 5y ago
If there's one thing google needs to very very heavily penalize in their page rank algorithm, it's websites that outright lie about date. It makes the entire search process unusable for tons of queries, even more so than if they just didn't display any date. If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.

holoduke 5y ago

I add 'forum' to my question. I don't think Reddit is a good site to answer my questions. Lot more specialized forums with more in depth info. The only topic I use reddit for is politics.

Pxtl 5y ago
At this point the granularity of subreddits often make Reddit the main forum of note on many subjects.
capableweb 5y ago
> The only topic I use reddit for is politics. Maybe I'm different, but for me, reading about politics it's important to read about opinions that differ from mainstream and might not be accepted everywhere, to challenge my own opinions. And the format of "upvoted content at the top" really works against that. Traditional forums where the format is "oldest content at the top" works much better for it. I've found technical content (where facts are just facts) works much better with the reddit model (and HN).

cush 5y ago

Are we using the "le" suffix for non-Wordle apps now? Reminds me of the "ly" suffix from the early 2010s. Hey, it certainly worked out for Musical.ly

FalcorTheDog 5y ago
I suspect you're overthinking it. I'm pretty sure he just took the "le" from Google (Reddit + Google = Redditle).
- cush 5y ago
  Def overthinking. Googit probably would have a quick shutdown notice.

maerF0x0 5y ago

Killer feature for me would be to kill the use app nag on mobile.

seabrookmx 5y ago
You can do this in the settings. Top right hamburger menu > Settings > Uncheck "Ask to open in app." I stumbled upon this when looking for the dark mode toggle and was very happy.
- maerF0x0 5y ago
  at least when i last tried it, it didnt actually work. It still would nag for 18+, or for folded comments.

propter_hoc 5y ago

Google used to have a feature called Discussions Search that would search forums for results. That allowed you to get discussion results from any forum. Since Google killed it, it's impossible to get discussion results unless you focus on Reddit. I wonder how much this has contributed to Reddit crowding out other discussion forums.

ConSeannery 5y ago
I tend to append or prepend site:forum.* to my searches to emulate this missing feature. Not every forum is set up with this url but it's better than nothing

TruthWillHurt 5y ago

I don't add "reddit" because Reddit discussions are good, I add it because Google results are shit.

runjake 5y ago

Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser. Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add You'll want to use something like this, to taste: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com I have these set up for all kinds of sites, and they're accessible straight from my local machines (because: sync) More help for Google search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

StopDarkPattern 5y ago
Wait and instead I don't have some random collection of people knowing all my searches? Nooooowayyyyyyy
- esperent 5y ago
  Are you talking about Google?
  - piaste 5y ago
    No, he's talking about the OP, whose site needs to intercept all your search queries in order to provide the highly valuable service of adding "site:reddit.com" for you.
    - esperent 5y ago
      Oh, I thought he was talking about Google, who intercept all your search terms for the valuable service of providing advertising to you.
kyleee 5y ago
or directly to your operating system if using KDE
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jarrenae 5y ago

Looks great! sorry to see that the API isn't quite working with all the traffic though. I actually build the same thing a few weeks back: https://searchbettr.com https://searchbettr.com but it redirects instantly to a Google search so you don't have to deal with the API.

yubiox 5y ago

I actually want the opposite. Reddit has the forced login thing now, I don't want it to show up in results at all.

Atlas667 5y ago

When the internet has been so comercialized that in order to gain credible information you have to go to a place where you KINDA trust people dont have ulterior motives. Who would give a damn about socialist censorship when you have a better alternative: a capitalist internet?

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kyledrake 5y ago

Context for the uninitiated to this discussion: https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying

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scim-knox-twox 5y ago

@greentfrapp, why you need JS for that? I love that in Kagi.com this can be done quickly with lenses (filters). Without JS.

tytrdev 5y ago

Meh. I tried a single (reasonable) search and got "no results." Probably a fluke but not initially promising.

groffee 5y ago

bitterblotter 5y ago

I've been working on a browser extension called More Rich Results that you might find useful. It just looks for Reddit and Stack Exchange results and previews them in the sidebar. It makes for a pretty clean search experience when developing or looking for opinions. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/kb5OE0n.gif https://i.imgur.com/kb5OE0n.gif It has definitely improved my workflow and a lot more features are planned such as Github repo/issue previews and support for Searx. It currently works with Google and DuckDuckGo, although it is still in the early stages. https://github.com/lassebomh/more-rich-results https://github.com/lassebomh/more-rich-results To install you need to download the repo, enable developer mode for extensions in your browser and press Load unpacked.

Skiiing 5y ago

Reddit should be removed from Google. It is not possible to view a Reddit page using a mobile browser. Google indexes webpages using an emulated mobile device. Therefore there should be zero pages in the Google index.

senectus1 5y ago

I'd like to be able to sort by Date/Karma etc... its it possible that might be added?

adwi 5y ago

Love this, but just stopped working for me. Did an initial search and got lots of results, came back and reloaded the page to “No results found :(“. Same issue from new window.

zagrebian 5y ago

Why is nobody mentioning Duckduckgo’s !r operator?

jve 5y ago

I was thinking about a realistic query I could use... A-ha: "difference between samsung galaxy S and A" Redittle: No results found :( Google "difference between samsung galaxy S and A site:reddit.com" - decent results.

spurgu 5y ago

Which subreddit the result is found on is inconsistent - it's in some titles, in others not. So it doesn't really stand out and oftentimes that's an important piece of information. The subreddit could be listed on its own line. Perhaps something like: <date> <subreddit> <post|comment> <points> <username> Not sure about the usefulness of the username, but it could be helpful to distinguish whether it's a post or a comment.

lala26in 5y ago

I have used it a bunch of times now since the post appeared on HN. Really impressed. I like it. Good luck people.

bruhhh 4y ago

Awesome project! Looks great! PS. FireFox (latest) didn't recognize it as a search engine. I can't add it to my search engines. It would be nice if this is something you can update on the backend side.

nokya 4y ago

I smiled while reading this item :) I knew I am not the only one doing this but wouldn't have guessed it as common practice. P.s. I will not use the service, showing that I insist on typing the additional word every time is my way of saying: 1. I don't want Google to return anything else 2. Reddit developers can't implement search correctly.